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How to do Valentine’s Day if you hate it

How to do Valentine’s Day if you hate it

by Karen Krizanovich

"Does Valentine’s Day make love cheap? Thankfully yes … and so do I"

Shock treatment in Bavaria | Marina O’Loughlin stops eating

Shock treatment in Bavaria | Marina O’Loughlin stops eating

by Marina O'Loughlin

What happens when a food writer is denied food?

Nights on the tiles | Why I’m not moving to Lisbon just yet

Nights on the tiles | Why I’m not moving to Lisbon just yet

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"A pianist. At breakfast. Playing the love theme to Tootsie"

About The Face | The magazine that invented everything

by Pippa Brooks

"Kate from Croydon and Naomi from Streatham, not glamazons from Manhattan"

Take a dive

Take a dive

by Molly Delaney

"He discreetly threw up behind the bar and kept serving"

Lost in Lebanon

Lost in Lebanon

by Suzanne Moore

"It is dark, we are in the mountains and our phones won’t work …"

How to enjoy polo when you hate it | Karen Krizanovich rides again

How to enjoy polo when you hate it | Karen Krizanovich rides again

by Karen Krizanovich

"Polo can be as stealth as nicotine, more expensive than cocaine and as addictive as success"

Print is dead, long live print

Print is dead, long live print

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

Civilian launches its first print edition - issue zero is out now

Where the wild things most certainly aren’t

Where the wild things most certainly aren’t

by George Reynolds

"There are monkeys, of course, because this is India, and monkeys are ubiquitous, but if you’ve ever been on safari in Africa you know that once the guide starts talking about primates and wildfowl it means that all the good stuff has gone home for the day"

Great white shark | George Reynolds takes a bite out of Bourdain

Great white shark | George Reynolds takes a bite out of Bourdain

by George Reynolds

What we talk about when we talk about Anthony Bourdain