#working-class-life
#working-class-life

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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

A young woman's dissociation intensifies into paranoid breakdown amid ordinary routines; a nail-salon owner observes and reveals working-class alienation with dark humor.

Arts

fromianVisits

1 week ago

From corner shops to demolition crews: Exhibition captures the vanishing East End of the 1970s

1970s East End saw rapid social and physical change documented by young photographers highlighting migrant communities, working-class life, and shifting retail landscapes.

fromApartment Therapy

2 days ago

What It's Really Like to Grow Up Where the Ultra-Wealthy "Summer" - And Why I Left

Typically I avoid telling people where I'm from. Especially now that I live on the West Coast, the perception of the Hamptons is so different from my childhood and young adult experience that I'd rather just tell people I'm from Long Island than explain the reality of growing up in an area notorious for its status as a playground for the rich and famous with sky-high real estate prices and club entry fees in the hundreds of dollars.

East Bay real estate

Photography

fromwww.theguardian.com

1 month ago

Stanhope Silver Band walk on water! Richard Grassick's best photograph

Photographer documented working-class life in the upper Durham Dales and used colour photography to capture the Stanhope Silver Band crossing the river stepping stones.

Books

fromThe New Yorker

3 months ago

A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain

The memoir 'Homework' blends model airplanes and school lunches with themes of ambivalence and escape from working-class life.