Mr Salary

‘They think you’re paying me for something, I told him.’ A story by Sally Rooney.

Grandma and Me

‘In families like mine, grandmothers loom large as yetis.’ Unfulfilled expectations, spite and Grandma in a story by Thomas McGuane.

Blazing Sun

‘That is why, in December, when the smell of approaching rain reaches my nostrils, I am filled with genuine joy: the joy of things that are about to happen.’ Tatiana Salem Levy on Rio de Janeiro.

Ghostlands

Jennifer Kabat on the Anti-Rent War, one of the earliest moments of rural populism in the US

How Do You Write a Memoir When You Can’t Remember?

Wendy Mitchell on writing a book while living with dementia.

Cracking Up

Kevin Breathnach is on the verge of cracking up. An excerpt from the book Tunnel Vision.

Martin Goodman | Notes on Craft

Martin Goodman on why it took him twenty years to write his latest novel.

My Biggest Insecurity About the Garden

Caoilinn Hughes

‘Pathos is suffering. But is it suffering to realize a dream, however puny?’ New fiction by Caoilinn Hughes.

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Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose on the Politics of Feeling

Devorah Baum, Josh Cohen and Anouchka Grose on the ways in which feelings have come to affect our political opinions, the complexities of democracy, and the competing pulls of activism, inertia and despair.