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Eerie (and erotic?) elsewheres: Coleridge’s 'Christabel', Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, and Rossetti’s 'Goblin Market' (drawings by me)

More Creepy Crawlies: Cave Cockroaches, Centipedes, and Piles of Poo

A Worldly Woman of Words: 'The Turkish Embassy Letters' by Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu

More Afternoon Tea Treats: Café Demel, Vienna (yes, I know it’s coffee, not tea)

Longhouse Latrine and Dogs in the Nighttime: Mengkak Longhouse, Batang Ai, Sarawak, Borneo

La Dolce Vita: 'Still Life' by Sarah Winman – Book Review

Shandrani Shelter where every dog has its day

‘Ego v. the world’: 'Pleasures and Landscapes' by Sybille Bedford – Book Recommendation

Keep fit, Iranian style: Zurkaneh session in Yazd, Iran