Body And Pickiness

The Body In The Wheelchair

Andrew Kersley | Londoner | 30th May 2026

Investigation into a tragedy in the East End of London, which culminated in a 77-year-old woman wheeling her long-deceased daughter's corpse through the streets on a November morning in 2023. Dealing with disability, poverty and grief, the pair had evaded contact with the authorities for decades, leaving almost no paper trail of their existence. A story of difficult lives and institutional failure (5,500 words)

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Pickiness Tastes Like Trauma

Amy Brown | Oakland Review Of Books | 11th May 2026

Parental food anxiety is widespread and hard to fix. "My kids have only known a world where mommy can press a button on her phone and a guy shows up at our house with Cholita Linda, a world where there are seventy-five types of cereal and every movie ever made is available to watch immediately on Netflix... How could you not become picky under these circumstances? Even the family dog is picky" (2,300 words)