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Element Eden
Try and imagine, just for a few moments, that you are Mel Gibson. Mel, your movie star looks have aged relatively well, your career has not; this has less to do with your film choices and more to do with the person that you are.
Junkhearts director Tinge Krishnan talks about writing stories in the playground, leaving medicine, and moving through darkness into light.
you can never go home again

Fleeing home is a family tradition. Mum, South African and pro-ANC, fled from apartheid. Dad, American and Jewish, fled, I think, from his mother. Last October, with nothing much to flee from at all, I made his decades-delayed return journey to New York City. Hibernating in the quiet, snow-blanketed suburbs, I can't say that my life has been changed forever. Were I in London, I would likely be doing what I am now: working part time, pondering going back to university, . . .

no man has repose

Going to the bathroom these days is an exercise that shows off a peculiar fluid grace. In one movement I unbutton my jeans, dart my hand into my pocket as they descend, pluck out my iPhone and flip it a full turn between thumb and forefinger. I sit, settle myself, unlock the phone, and open Twitter to scan for responses to the hilarious video I posted three minutes ago of a clown being used as a piñata. The whole thing has probably taken four or five seconds. . . .