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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Katie Goh
Along the Himalayan massif, the remnant straggles of ancient citrus groves sprawl. It is here, where the plains of Central, Eastern, and Southern Asia erupt into mountains, where the orange begins its journey eight million years ago. Article continues after advertisementCitrus is unpredictable. The speed and ease with which interspecific hybridization can happen means that the genus is perplexing for scientists to trace back in time, never quite maintaining a straight chronology.
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1 month ago | 
huckmag.com | Katie Goh
Katie Goh’s debut book, Foreign Fruit, is part memoir, part botanical history, and part cultural criticism. It follows the journey of the orange – from its origins on the Tibetan plateau as a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin to the neatly waxed, netted fruit stacked high in supermarket aisles. Along the way, she unpacks how the orange is tied to colonialism, migration, resilience, and survival.
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2 months ago | 
booksfromscotland.com | Katie Goh
By Katie Goh The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked in supermarket displays, is not the same orange that grew from the first straggling orange grove that took root on the Tibetan plateau, part pomelo and part mandarin. The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Katie Goh
Sam Beam, better known as his stage name Iron & Wine, is holding court on a crowded stage. Although Iron & Wine is a one-man musical project, Beam is joined by seven collaborators tonight: there are the musicians – covering strings, keys and drums – and then there are the puppeteers: two artists from the Emmy award-winning Manual Cinema work three projectors. On a screen behind Beam and the band, the seated audience is treated to a shadow puppet show throughout the set.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Katie Goh
In Michael MacLeod’s first reporting job, at the now defunct Wee County News covering Clackmannanshire, Scotland’s smallest county, every story published had an impact on the community. “You had people coming in with guns and knives and bottles of piss to tell you what they thought about you writing about [their] crimes,” he says.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
festmag.com | Katie Goh
You wait eight years for an adaptation of The Outrun and then two come along at once. Discussions for turning Amy Liptrot’s memoir into screen and stage adaptations began a year after the book was first published in 2016. The Outrun, which recounts Liptrot’s journey to sobriety on Orkney, was a bestseller upon release, shortlisted for major literary awards and hailed as ‘revelation’ by the Guardian for its fresh, accessible approach to nature writing.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Katie Goh
In her 20-year career as a visual artist, Zarah Hussain has never been commissioned by or worked with a curator at a senior level in the UK who is also Muslim. “Where are the role models in the arts? Where are the musicians and the artists?”The lack of Muslims in the creative sector is a reality that’s been addressed in research published this year.
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May 18, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Katie Goh
Set in the weeks leading up to the guerrilla war for independence, Sambizanga focuses on the plight of a young couple. Domingos (Domingos de Oliveira), a member of the liberation movement, is arrested, interrogated, brutally beaten and sent to the dreaded Luanda prison by Portuguese authorities. Not knowing of her husband’s fate, Maria (Elisa Andrade) and her child relentlessly search for him, from village to village and navigating a web of colonial bureaucracy.
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May 2, 2024 | 
port-magazine.com | Katie Goh |Words Katie Goh
A visit to the first of California’s orange treesIn 1873, three citrus seedlings arrived in Riverside, California. They had travelled far. Originating in Sao Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, they were carried northward at the request of the US Department of Agriculture. In the US capital, the saplings were re-christened the Washington Navel orange and, now American, they headed west to Eliza Tibbets’ garden in the city of Riverside, 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
empireonline.com | Katie Goh
Nell Tiger Free became an actor to exorcise her energy. “I was driving my mother insane,” the English actor explains from her flat in South London. “I had way too much energy as an 11-year- old. So she took me to a Saturday club where I could run around and sing and dance and act.”Twenty-four-year-old Free has directed all that energy into dark-natured, suspenseful projects, from working with directors like Nicolas Winding Refn on Too Old To Die Young and M.
