Chloe Wilson

‘Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.’ – unknown; often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln However blunt the blade was to begin with, one must admit: the time allocated …

Tchaikovsky’s tchotchkes, cluttering up Tchaikovsky’s office. By which we mean the salon, its instruments, the vacant staves waiting for semiquavers to swing from them, like apes. Did Tchaikovsky crack his knuckles. Did he flex his toes, constrained though they were …

‘… it is human nature to believe that the phenomena we know are the only ones that exist.’ – Marie Curie Twenty observations from the séance: in approximate chronological order: One: a dim room: a chair upholstered: in Utrecht velvet: …

Try vinegar. Our grandmothers trusted its knack for stripping back organic matter. Try bicarbonate of soda, try lemon, try tepid water spiked with alka seltzer. Work before the fizz dissipates. No success? If the affected area resembles a spilt cabernet, …