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Krista Langlois | BioGraphic | 24th June 2025 Rome is home to many wild animals, which take advantage of the city's abundance of archaeological sites to exist in close proximity to their human neighbours. There are crabs in the sewers, wolves and boars in the parks, raptors on the pillars, ducks nesting in the museums and turtles in the fountains. Hedgehogs, foxes, bats and more use the ancient "green corridors" to cross the city (2,100 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! George Orwell | New Statesman | 26th June 2025 In honour of Orwell's birthday, his former magazine republishes four articles by or about him. All are worth reading. "Hop-picking" from 1931 is an account of his summer spent in Kent doing agricultural labour. "Common lodging houses" from 1932 is his exposé of London's homeless shelters. Following this are V. S. Pritchett 1950 obituary of Orwell and a reappraisal by Christopher Hitchens from 1980 (5,000 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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