Travel and Arts Journo - feature writer at loveEXPLORING.com. Previously BBC Culture, Artsy etc. Founder of Mind Trip, a newsletter exploring cities through culture. mindtripculture.substack.com https://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kr4nu6r5ml24The Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, a supporter of anti-government protests, has been sentenced to death. This cannot be allowed to happen. The world needs to show its outrage. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/middleeast/iran-rapper-toomaj-salehi-death-sentence.html?smid=url-share27 Apr 2024 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kr4nu6r5ml24https://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3koojw64sps2rI wrote about the 100th anniversary of Surrealism for CNN Style. Unlike other modernist movements of the early 20th century, it is still influencing artists today. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/27/style/surrealism-art-movement-explained/index.html27 Mar 2024 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3koojw64sps2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3knnlbub4w22bMy latest for Mind Trip on Multatuli's Max Havelaar, the Dutch novel that "killed colonialism." Please do subscribe! https://mindtripculture.substack.com/p/multatulis-max-havelaar-the-dutch14 Mar 2024 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3knnlbub4w22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3knjmh5bezy2i"Though the pictures were uniformly pretty, making them was often ugly." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/12/merchant-ivory-oscar-shocking-truth-emma-thompson-anthony-hopkins-howards-end12 Mar 2024 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3knjmh5bezy2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kmxh4toxt42tJames Ensor mask chocolates. Yes, I ate their little screaming faces 😱05 Mar 2024 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kmxh4toxt42thttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3klmuakagcm2aThe latest issue of Mind Trip in which my co writer, Stephen Thomas, explores the poet Rimbaud's ultimately thwarted desire to leave the town of his birth, Charleville-Mézières. https://mindtripculture.substack.com/p/of-worms-and-epitaphs-arthur-rimbaud17 Feb 2024 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3klmuakagcm2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk7nc53lvk2cThe Bon Marchè epitomised the idea of a department store for the C19th French public & it was here that Zola came to undertake research for his novel Au Bonheur des Dames. Find out more in 'Émile Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames & the transformation of 19th century Paris' in Mind Trip. Link in bio.30 Jan 2024 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk7nc53lvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk2g3cf77u2yMind Trip is a newsletter exploring cities and the wider world around us through culture. This is our Review Issue. You'll find a link in my bio. Please do consider subscribing!28 Jan 2024 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk2g3cf77u2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk2fy6q6em23Mind Trip is a newsletter exploring cities and the wider world around us through culture. You'll find a link in my bio. Please do subscribe!28 Jan 2024 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk2fy6q6em23https://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk2fvv7bge2uMind Trip is a newsletter exploring cites and the wider world around us through culture. You'll find a link in my bio. Please do consider subscribing!28 Jan 2024 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk2fvv7bge2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk2folsrae2yMind Trip's first newsletter. Link in bio. Please do consider subscribing!28 Jan 2024 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk2folsrae2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cathpound.bsky.social/post/3kk2fdkescv25At a time when the value of humanities subjects is being questioned, Mind Trip, the newsletter I have founded, aims to underline the intrinsic role culture plays in understanding the world around us. Please do consider subscribing. Link in bio.28 Jan 2024 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:eobygiabgbt2ezhajxiug6gz/app.bsky.feed.post/3kk2fdkescv25