Long Life and Feral Frontiers

Six Decades Behind The Counter

Lisa Jucca | Reuters | 20th November 2025

Interview with Anna Possi, Italy's longest-serving barista. She has recently turned 101 and still works behind the counter at the café she opened with her husband in the Piedmont hills in 1958. He died in 1974; she's been pulling the shots by herself ever since. Her secret for long life? Refusing to be idle and remaining independent. "Work is what distracts you and at the same time gives you something" (1,000 words)

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'Nothing to See Here'

Rusana Novikova | Anthropology News | 3rd December 2025

At Russia's "feral frontier" — such as on Sakhalin Island in the far north-west — the effort to recolonise rural territory must combat thirty years of post-Soviet neglect. "Abandoned fields overgrown with birch trees are by no means a reversal to some 'original nature'. Instead, they are a poignant reminder of what happens when the biggest social experiment of the twentieth century is no more" (1,800 words)