by Sophie Roy | Mar 25, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
Eating is never just eating. It is habit, inheritance, access, geography, and, more often than we would like to admit, power. Taste, if anything, is trained. In Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (in the original mandarin chinese and translated by Lin King) food is...
by Sophie Roy | Mar 9, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
There is an open bookshelf in a town I’ve visited almost every summer since I was born. The general consensus in this kind of affair is that you should leave one to take one. I’ll admit I’ve seldom abided by that rule under the pretense of being on holiday. There are...
by celeste | Feb 20, 2026 | THE ITCH
Pathetic fallacy is a literary device in which human emotions, thoughts, or intentions are attributed to non-human elements of the natural world – such as weather, landscapes, animals, or inanimate objects. When writers describe the sky as “angry,” the wind as...
by celeste | Jan 21, 2026 | THE ITCH
Patti Smith’s “Bread of Angels” stands as a quiet yet resonant meditation on spiritual hunger, human fragility, and the enduring search for grace. Like much of Smith’s work across poetry, music, and memoir, the piece resists easy categorisation. It is neither sermon...
