Blue BookDrawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer''s artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of

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provided they embrace the inescapable truism that the primacy of profit must make way for the predominance of people and the planet

Loy begins to suspect Jack

Millicent King begins keeping her journal

Fluctuating blood-sugar levels

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Sophie slinks back home with damaged pride-and a jackpot of a hangover

Once a marathon runner Kimberley could barely jog around the block without wanting to keel over but she knew she had to do something

sometimes plain wrong

the poetic works of Agha Shahid Ali had the power to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary

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And there's no time to waste -- let's hop to it