• 10 May 2026

    The Bear Inherited

    A small picture book companion to the IHT section. Eighteen short pages about a bear and a bakery and a father and the cubs at the till. Not analytical. Not advocacy. The bear is in the kitchen, on the Tuesday mornings, while the dough is rising — and at a wedding, on a Saturday in June, where the music started up.

  • 10 May 2026

    The Bear Pitched

    A small picture book companion to the venture-capital section. Ten short pages about ten friends, the cubs at the kitchen table, and a half-past-eleven bus station on a Tuesday night where the bear met another bear who was going home.

  • 10 May 2026

    The Bear Looked Up

    A small picture book companion to the Building Mars section. Seven evenings in a small field on a small hill, plus one Wednesday afternoon in a small library while the rain wouldn't stop, and the rockets, sometimes, going past.

  • 10 May 2026

    The Bear Read the News

    A small picture book companion to the UK migration section. Fifteen short pages about a fortnight in which the bear took both the bear's paper and the neighbour's paper, the bear had soup with the neighbour, the bear got out at a small town the bear had never been to, and the bear noticed a few things the papers were not, mostly, writing about — a chair at the kitchen table that does not have a bear in it on most evenings, a fridge with postcards from Dubai and Singapore, and a neighbour's son who came home for a week and then went back.

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