Better Known

Simon Parkin


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Simon Parkin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Simon Parkin is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and a critic for the Observer newspaper. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of three books. His most recent, The Island of Extraordinary Captives, about the Hutchinson internment camp on the Isle of Man, is a New York Times recommended read, and winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize. He previously wrote A Game of Birds and Wolves and Death by Video Game.

  1. Bertha Bracey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09DF0zeuFXM
  2. A cure for insomnia https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/14/finally-a-cure-for-insomnia
  3. Webster’s Second Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary
  4. Mikado arcade https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/30/inside-game-center-mikado-one-of-the-best-arcades-in-japan
  5. Fact checkers https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-art-of-fact-checking
  6. War games https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-deadly-war-game-of-the-battle-of-the-atlantic/
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