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About The Ways We Live

The Ways We Live explores culture, identity, relationships and the everyday customs that shape our lives.

It looks at how people across different societies understand family, friendship, belonging, work, migration, language, privacy, celebration and loss. It asks why ordinary life can feel natural in one culture and unfamiliar in another.

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Subscribers will receive thoughtful essays, observations and occasional extracts from the forthcoming book, The Ways We Live.

New essays will be published regularly, with occasional notes and extracts between longer pieces.

About Dara Vale

Dara Vale writes about culture, identity and everyday life. The work draws upon history, travel and observation to explore what our differences, and our shared experiences, reveal about being human.

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