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Around 3 million Bengali Pakistanis now live in Pakistan it is estimated and a research project has been exploring their experiences, mixing oral testimony and art projects with analysis of recent history. Humera Iqbal explains their findings to presenter Sarah Jilani. And Ahmad Naji Bakhti discusses his novel about the dreams of a boy growing up in Lebanon and how writing it in exile in Wales has led him to reflect on the language and phrasing he uses and what audience he is addressing. Humera Iqbal is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology at University College London. Her project is called Partition of Identity https://poistudy.com/ and has led to a film called BHASHAILI (ADRIFT) (2023) directed and produced by: Jawad Sharif and produced by: Humera Iqbal, Syeda Kashmala, Anushay Malik based on their research work and that of Maria Rashid. It is being screened at Rich Mix as part of the Being Human Festival on November 16th https://richmix.org.uk/events/paper-boats-the-pakistani-bengali-story/ Ahmad Naji Bakhti is a lecturer in creative writing at Aberystwyth University and the author of a novel called Between Beirut and the Moon published by Influx Press. He is also working on a project with Syrian residents in Aberystwyth. Dr Sarah Jilani is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London, looking at post-colonial world literatures and film and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council to put research on the radio. This episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI.

Guest writer and filmmaker JULIET JACQUES joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'Variations' 2021 by the one and only Juliet herself. Published in 2021 by Influx Press, this book of short stories portrays the mixed, messy and moving lives of transexual women transexual men, non binary, gender queer, cross dressers and inverts, around London, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Brighton, Belfast, Cardiff and Norwich.   Juliet and Jillian focus on 'Standards of Care' and also discuss humour, poverty, divorce, testosterone, rainbow capitalism, fake tits, ink blot tests, electric shock therapy, alternative Miss World, punk rock gender play, friendship in the face of prejudice, making objects that cannot be sold, itchy balls of wool for breasts, fresh meat advertising slogan, interest in post communist countries, the importance of questioning how people pay the rent and the disappointment of greater understanding not necessarily bringing about greater tolerance.   JULIET JACQUES julietjacques.com 'Monaco' Toothgrinder Press 2023 'Variations' Influx Press 2021 'Trans: A Memoir' Verso Books 2015 'Transgender Journey' 2010-2012 The Guardian 'Suite 212' 2017-2021 Resonance FM 'Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine' 2018   ARTISTS Boris Mikilov Cecilia Sjoholm David Goymer Deborah Tchoudjinoff Garth Gatrix Hatty Buchanan Iain Hales Laura Moreton-Griffiths   WRITERS Susan Stryker 'Transgender History' 2008   MUSIC Genesis Joy Division Man Enough to be A Woman (Jayne County) New York Dolls NME magazine Sex Pistols Siouxsie and the Banshees Siouxsie Sioux  The Fall The Roxy Wayne County and The Electric Chairs   FILM + TV Adam Curtis 'Can't Get You Out of my Head' series 2021 BBC Bill Grundy 'Today' 1968-1977 Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978 Hattie Jacques 'Carry On' series 1958-1992 Oksana Kazmina, camera and editor Josh Appignanesi 'Female Human Animal' 2018   EDUCATION + INSTITUTIONS ICA London Somerset House Studios The Royal College   POLITICS + MOVEMENTS Black Lives Matter Femen 2008 Ukraine founded by Anna Hutsol, Alexandra Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko Gay Liberation Front Margaret Thatcher for Section 28 Revolution of Dignity 18-23 Feb 2014 Ukraine ReSew - Kyiv based feminist sewing cooperative Viktor Yanukovych

In this episode, we speak to novelist and short story writer Eliza Clark about her novel, Penance. We discuss violence and transgression within fiction, and what this can reveal about wider society. We chat about the satirisation of the true crime genre, and the socio-political context which surrounds violent acts. We examine the role of the internet in writing, publishing and how it effects our experiences of our bodies and desires. We discuss the influence of both mainstream and social media in shaping narratives about people and places, as well as aspects of social class and regional inequality between the north-east and London. We chat about what it means to write difficult female characters and the difference between writing first and second novels. Eliza Clark is from Newcastle. In 2018, she received a grant from New Writing North's 'Young Writers Talent Fund'. Her debut novel, Boy Parts, was published by Influx Press in July 2020 and was Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year. In 2022, Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five, and she was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Penance was published by Faber in 2023. References Boy Parts by Eliza Clark Penance by Eliza Clark You can now subscribe to our Patreon for £5 a month, which will enable us to keep bringing you more in-depth conversations with writers. As a subscriber, you will have access to: 10% listener discount on all books at Storysmith, either online or in person Opportunities to submit questions to upcoming guests Free book giveaways each month related to our featured guests Early access to episodes each month Exclusive free tickets each month to live Storysmith events A free Storysmith tote bag after 3 months subscription Please like, rate and subscribe to help promote the podcast and support our work.

Explanations of individual's political affiliations which do not take non-material into account are fatally flawed. We simply cannot explain or predict people's political behaviour without thinking about how support for individuals/parties are affected by, and shape people's identities, felt exclusion/inclusion, legitimacy, and recognition.However, when it comes to trying to explain how states will behave in the international system, our theories mostly ignore these factors. Traditionally, scholars have focused on how particular actions are driven by states' perceptions of their own material interests (or at least their elites). In that context, if/when a state will undermine, challenge, ignore or support the current international order is simply a matter of exploring the costs/benefits it perceives will flow from a specific action.Using this framework, many scholars and commentators now believe that conflict between the ‘West' and China is inevitable. China, or any ascending power, will increasingly see it in their material interest to exert their increasing power to challenge an international political order – an order which it did not have a hand in creating and that it sees as being purposely designed to entrench the powers of and enrich the founders of the order. The powerful states which benefit from the existing order, will struggle to accommodate the new power into the old structure, leading to an increasing chance of conflict.My guest for this episode is Dr Rohan Mukherjee. Rohan thinks that this type of analysis misses a key factor in determining state behaviour – perceived recognition, increases and decreases in a state's status. Like in domestic politics, explanations which ignore these elements will fail in its predictions. In his excellent new book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions, he argues that whether rising powers cooperate with, challenge, or try to reform, an international order depends on the extent to which its core institutions facilitate symbolic equality with the great-power club.Rohan is in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the LSE, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He received his PhD from Princeton and holds a Masters in Public Administration from its School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Program, and a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the UN's University of Tokyo.Rohan is a thoughtful and creative scholar, and it was a great pleasure to explore how his approach can be applied to understand that the behaviour of China, India, the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where we should expect cooperation, reform or conflict in the international political order, and many other elements in our world today. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!CitationsEveret, P. (2022) The Trees. Influx Press.The Expanse TV show produced by the Syfy Network (Series 1-3) and Amazon (Series 4-6) based on novels by James CoreyLucy Dacus, musician. See Lucy DacusMukherjee, R. (2022) Ascending Order: Rising Powers and Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge Studies in International Relations). Cambridge University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Louise O'Brien reviews three of her favourite books from last year: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Tinder Press; Eden by Jim Crace published by Picador and The Trees by Percival Everett published by Influx Press

This is a conversation with Naji Bakhti, author of the novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020), published by Influx Press. He is also Project Manager at SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom at the Samir Kassir Foundation. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: Growing up in a ‘postwar' context, Lebanon Writing in English and the distance afforded to us when doing so Thinking about Arabic and creativity Genesis of Between Beirut and the Moon Writing the local, writing the global The Arab world and the impossibility of Space exploration Billionaires are ruining space in addition to planet Earth Joking about sectarianism in Lebanon (and also Balkans, Iraq etc) West Beirut (1998 film) and its impact, watching it (in Joey's case) the day Hariri was assassinated in 2005 Writing about Beirut as a character How do we think about fiction when reality is so overwhelming? Inheriting the silences from one's parents (including postmemory) Friendships versus sectarian politics Recommended Books Guapa by Saleem Haddad De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage Persepolis by Marjie Satrapi Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Music by Tarabeat.

I was delighted to be joined by Juliet Jacques, who is a writer, film maker, and one of our leading cultural commentators. We talked about her latest book Variations which is her debut short story collection. She uses uses fiction inspired by found material and real-life events to explore the history of transgender Britain. Juliet very kindly agreed to do a reading for us where she tells the story of a press intrusion into the life of Laura, a model and actress in the 1950s. We also talk about the transphobia and 'trans discourse' in the mainstream media (and how stupid and reductive this often is) and how the role of fiction and story telling might be a compelling and creative alternative. Variations is out now on Influx Press https://www.influxpress.com/variations Her excellent podcast Suite 212 can be found here https://soundcloud.com/suite-212 and the Patreon for that is here https://www.patreon.com/suite212 If you like this interview and would like to support us, from just £1 a month, please consider subscribing to our Patreon patreon.com/culturesexrelationships Your support pays me to do the podcast and also helps me to pay a fee to freelance guests.

In this month’s Resonance 104.4fm show, former co-host Tom Overton returns to interview Suite (212)’s founder, Juliet Jacques, about Variations, her new collection of stories that tells a potted history of trans and non-binary people in the United Kingdom from the Victorian era to the present, published by Influx Press on 17 June 2021. They talk about how Juliet moved on from her ‘Transgender Journey’ series for the Guardian and her memoir, Trans, that came out of it in 2015; why she chose to write Variations as short stories rather than as a novel, or a more straightforward British trans history, or make it as a film; the different forms she uses in each story, and her research processes; how postmodern approaches have intersected with prejudice to make the compilation of trans histories more difficult; how Variations looks at trans people’s complex relationships with industrialisation, law, sexology and media, as well as literature, music and film; the context of a British – and global – backlash against trans visibility and rights as she wrote the book; the absence of trans authors and authentic trans characters from literary history, the influences on her work and the uses of trans writers telling trans stories; and what Juliet might write next. Pre-order Variations for £9.99 from the Influx Press website at https://www.influxpress.com/variations. For a full list of references, subscribe to Suite (212) on Patreon for as little as £1 per month via https://www.patreon.com/suite212.

We love a debut author and emerging Northern literary talent Eliza Clark is no exception. In Boy Parts we meet Irina who obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who's attracted her attention... Sexy, subversive, sweary, the Guardian aptly says it "will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror." You can read a brilliant interview with Eliza here. Boy Parts is published by Influx Press and available now. Signed copies are available at most Waterstones stores and select indies throughout the UK and you can also buy copies directly from the publisher. "Explores the darkest corners of artistic practice, sexuality and violence with bold wit and fearlessness. A dazzling, horrifying debut." The Irish Times Podcast produced and edited by Megan Bay Dorman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As major City firms and the likes of Facebook and Google allow their employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, does it herald the end of the office as we know it? And what does it mean for culture? From Working Girl to The Office, The Bell Jar to Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came To An End, the office has provided rich inspiration for the arts. We discuss the history of the office in culture and contemplate what comes next with writer Jonathan Lee and film and TV critic Hannah McGill. The Orwell Prize-winning writer and teacher Kate Clanchy has spent years with young people helping them to become poets. Some of her students are from migrant or refugee families and have brought with them rich poetic traditions; some from home backgrounds that haven’t traditionally seen poetry as a world open to them. Now she has written a book, How to Grow Your Own Poem, which details the way that she uses existing poems and her students’ lived experience to teach – a method that she believes anyone can follow to write their own poem. The start of September would always be a busy time for new books, jostling for attention in the run up to the lucrative Christmas buying period. But lockdown saw many publishers freeze releases from March onwards. And today the floodgates were opened meaning the launch of an unprecedented 590 hardbacks, 28% up on last year. To explore what this means for writers, publishers and consumers Samira is joined by Thea Lenarduzzi, commissioning editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and Kit Caless co-founder and editor at independent publisher Influx Press. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Studio producer: Hilary Dunn

The Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George and Weedon Grossmith is the book featured in this episode of Backlisted. Joining John and Andy to celebrate this touching and funny classic of suburban manners, first published in 1892 and never out of print since, are writer and critic Laura Cumming and novelist and Grossmith expert E.O. Higgins. Also in this episode Andy has been on an imaginary pub crawl round The Local by Maurice Gorham and Edward Ardizzone, while John has been enjoying Percival Everett's 2009 novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier, newly published in the UK by Influx Press.

In episode 22, we speak to Shiromi Pinto, the author of 'Plastic Emotions' (2019, Influx Press) and 'Trussed' (2006, Serpent's Tail). You can order Plastic Emotions here (https://www.influxpress.com/plastic-emotions) . We spoke to Shiromi about her use of real letters to produce fiction; what she does with her writing offcuts; how far 500 words a day can get you; and losing faith, spiking a project, and then finding the courage to pick it up again to drag it all the way to publication. Shiromi is on Twitter @blimundaseyes (https://twitter.com/blimundaseyes?lang=en) As are we: @UnsoundMethods (https://twitter.com/UnsoundMethods) - @JaimieBatchan (https://twitter.com/JaimieBatchan) - @LochlanBloom (https://twitter.com/LochlanBloom) Jaimie's Instagram is: @jaimie_batchan Thanks for listening, please like, subscribe and rate Unsound Methods wherever you get your podcasts. Our website is: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/

Kit Caless is the co-founder of Influx Press, the Hackney based publisher making books from London anthologies all the way to poetry from The Western Sahara. We met to discuss starting a press from scratch, how indie presses manage submissions and the importance of literary prizes. Writers, how do can a publisher know you’re there unless you make yourself available? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to author Shiromi Pinto about her second novel, Plastic Emotions (https://www.influxpress.com/plastic-emotions), recently published by Influx Press, inspired by the life of 20th century Sri Lankan architect and feminist icon Minnette de Silva (1918-1998). SELECTED REFERENCES Shiromi Pinto: http://www.christopherlittle.net/authors/shiromi-pinto/ Minnette de Silva: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/14/minnette-de-silva-the-brilliant-female-architect-forgotten-by-history Geoffrey Bawa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bawa Henri Cartier-Bresson Le Corbusier: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Le+Corbusier:+Architect+and+Feminist-p-9780470847473 David Lean Pablo Picasso

We hosted the shortlisted authors for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 in an evening of readings at the London Review Bookshop. Rewarding the most exciting and interesting literature published by small presses in the UK and Ireland, the Republic of Consciousness Prize has previously been awarded to John Keene (Counternarratives, Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Eley Williams (Attrib. and other stories, Influx Press). This year’s shortlist of six is: Daša Drndić for Doppelgänger, (Istros), Will Eaves for Murmur (CB Editions), Wendy Erskine for Sweet Home (Stinging Fly), Anthony Joseph for Kitch (Peepal Tree), Chris McCabe for Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) and Alex Pheby for Lucia (Galley Beggar). Sadly, Daša Drndić died last year, but was represented at the readings by her publisher and translator. See the full shortlist here. The readings were introduced by the prize’s founder, Neil Griffiths. The Republic of Consciousness Prize was set up in 2017, and is given yearly to a book published by a small press in the UK & Ireland. It is the only prize that awards money to both the publisher and the author of the winning title. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

EPISODE 2: We Are The Disease by Gareth E Rees Narrator: Daniel Wilmot Music and sound design: Ian J Cole Additional sound: Wayne Britcliffe "As soon as this storm abated, the captain promised me, we’d leave this place. But what place was this? A block of ice on a body of water on a globe in empty space. What were we leaving? Where were we escaping to? There was nothing but the world, and we were of that world. Microbes lived inside us, digesting our food, defending us, attacking us, entirely disregarding us. They were in the sea. On the land. In our cities. In our water supply. Beneath the ice of the Arctic, blooming and mutating, seeping up into the light. There was nowhere to go but here, and here was everywhere." First published in the excellent horror anthology series The Shadow Booth edited by Dan Coxon, We Are The Disease is a chilling eco-horror story from Gareth E Rees. Gareth's novel The Stone Tide is available now from Influx Press.  "Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? "The Stone Tide is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world."  

Where, and how, does nature writing intersect with architectural criticism? Urban exploration? Hauntology? Nationalism and fascism? This week, Tom Overton talks to writer and Influx Press co-founder Gary Budden about how his collection 'Hollow Shores' blends nature writing and weird fiction, his collaborations with filmmaker and fellow Influx author Adam Scovell and illustrator Maxim Peter Griffin, how writers as aesthetically and politically diverse as Derek Jarman and Henry Williamson have represented the English landscape, and more. SELECTED REFERENCES Robert Aickman – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/burial-plots-robert-aickmans-eerily-ordinary-stories DARRAN ANDERSON, Imaginary Cities (2015) – https://www.influxpress.com/imaginary-cities GARY BUDDEN (ed.), Acquired for Development By … A Hackney Anthology (2012) – https://www.influxpress.com/acquired-for-development-by GARY BUDDEN, Hollow Shores (2017) – https://deadinkbooks.com/product/hollow-shores-paperback GARY BUDDEN & MAXIM GRIFFIN, The White Heron Beneath the Reactor – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1194866830/make-100-the-white-heron-beneath-the-reactor KIT CALESS, Spoon’s Carpets: An Appreciation (2016) – https://wetherspoonscarpets.tumblr.com/about Ramsey Campbell – http://www.ramseycampbell.com BRIAN DILLON, The Great Explosion (2015) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/the-great-explosion-brian-dillon-review-kent-disaster-gunpowder-war The Garden (dir. Derek Jarman, 1990) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099634 Greenteeth (dir. Adam Scovell, 2017) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFbKpxzF1c NIALL GRIFFITHS, Grits (2000) – https://www.influxpress.com/blog/the-anti-canon-series-niall-griffiths NIALL GRIFFITHS, Kelly and Victor (2002) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/27/fiction.reviews James Herbert – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert Tim Jarvis – https://timothyjjarvis.wordpress.com TOM JEFFREYS, Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot (2017) – http://www.tom-jeffreys.co.uk/signal-failure Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1977) – https://thequietus.com/articles/23978-derek-jarman-jubilee-review-anniversary-bfi The Last of England (dir. Derek Jarman, 1987) – http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2014/11/in-profile-derek-jarmans-the-last-of-england-1988 PAUL LEWIS & ROB EVANS, Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police (2013) – https://www.theguardian.com/uk/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans Arthur Machen – http://www.arthurmachen.org.uk HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby-Dick (1851) - https://voices.clickhole.com/the-time-i-spent-on-a-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-c-1825124286 D. A. NORTHWOOD, Judderman (2018) – http://www.newlexicons.com/blog/2017/11/21/da-northwood-the-eden-book-society Sátántángo (dir. Béla Tarr, 1994) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111341 ADAM SCOVELL, Mothlight (2019) – https://www.influxpress.com/mothlight W. G. Sebald RICHARD SMYTH, ‘The Dark Side of Nature Writing’ (2018) – https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5331/the-dark-side-of-nature-writing David Southwell (Hookland project) – https://hookland.wordpress.com Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr, 2000) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/apr/19/artsfeatures ELEY WILLIAMS, Attrib. (2017) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/attrib-and-other-stories-by-eley-williams-review HENRY WILLIAMSON, Tarka the Otter (1927) - https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/tarka-the-otter-as-an-allegory-of-war

Triumph, wobbles, anxiety and first draft trials...So, had recorded the charming and talented Ronan Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul but the quality wasn't good enough for you beauties... hence just me this chapter. I will be recording Ronan when he's in London promoting his book. Sorry Ronan!If you would like to come on and discuss your work (ANY creative process not just literary endeavours) let me know, get in touch!Books I mention this chapter are:Dogwood by Lindsay ParnellMothlight by Adam ScovellUnion Street by Pat Barker

John and Andy are at the dogs this week, discussing the 1963 cult novel The Lowlife by Alexander Baron. They are joined by London enthusiast Peter Watts(the first person to write a biography of Battersea Power Station) and Gary Budden, author and director of ground-breaking indie Influx Press.

Linda Mannheim interviews author Paul Scraton about his book Ghosts on the Shore, editor Gary Budden about why Influx Press decided to publish the book, and reader Matt Lancashire about why he picked up a copy of the book and read it. Music for Why Why Why is by Cathode Ray Tube.  You can find more of their music on CRTMusik.com. 

Darran is the author of 'Imaginary Cities', an exploration of metropolis, imagination, and the symbiosis within. It was published by Influx Press. His second book, Tidewrack will be released on the 8th of March 2018 from Chatto & Windus. It is the second in a trilogy of books about cities. He is a Contributing Editor for White Noise Magazine. DARRAN'S BOOK CHOICES: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Darran tweets prolifically @Oniropolis and you can visit his website for more information about what he's up to. If you haven't already, please consider leaving the podcast a review on iTunes. It makes a massive difference and helps new people discover the show.

Paul is the Editor of 'Elsewhere', a journal of place. His latest book, 'Ghosts on the Shore: Travels along Germany's Baltic Coast' will be published in June by Influx Press. You can find much of his writing about place on the website 'Caught by the River'. Paul's Book Choices: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris (Faber Books) Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović (Istros Books) What I Saw by Joseph Roth (W. W. Norton & Company) Paul Tweets @underagreysky and @seeyouelsewhere