You don’t need to be a musical theatre fan to look at Judy Garland and see something, well, magical. After watching some of her performances it seems like millions of times, beneath the talent – that face, that voice, those moves – you cannot help but begin to see what lay beneath the surface: A [...]

  I was squatting naked on the floor. I held the glass scale in my hands and knocked it repetitively with medium force on the only exposed square of laminate on my floor, portioned out of the sea of clothing that covered the rest of my floor and cleared, for just this purpose. In this [...]