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Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar In Conversation

Danez Smith & Kaveh Akbar

Breasts: A History

Breasts: A History

Krys Malcolm Belc

Three poems

Three poems

Mary Ruefle

Now, Now, Louison

Now, Now, Louison

Jean Frémon

Masculinity Is Leaving The Male Body

Masculinity Is Leaving The Male Body

Seabright D. Mortimer

Parfait

A short story about the end of an affair by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell.

After

‘I again told him I wasn’t ready to have sex, and his only response was to lean in and kiss me.’ – April Ayers Lawson

Human Moments in World War III

‘I try not to think big thoughts or submit to rambling abstractions. But Earth orbit puts men into philosophical temper.’ – Fiction by Don DeLillo

A Few Words about Fake Breasts

Nell Boeschenstein on the fraught discourse around post-mastectomy reconstruction

In Conversation: Will Ashon and Greg Milner

Will Ashon and Greg Milner, authors of books on the Wu-Tang Clan and recording technology, discuss audiophilia and music making.

A Summer of Japanese Literature

Translator Dan Bradley shares his ten favourite works of Japanese literature.

When Poets Write Novels

Caoilinn Hughes on the ten best novels written by poets

Editing Vidia

Diana Athill

‘Good publishers are supposed “discover” writers, and perhaps they do. To me, however, they just happened to come’ – Diana Athill on Editing V.S. Naipaul.

A summer of Japanese literature

A Summer of Japanese Literature

Dan Bradley

From manga to crime fiction, contemporary literature to Nobel-Prize-winning classics, here are ten works of Japanese literature worth spending your summer on

The Last Children of Tokyo

Yoko Tawada

‘Encountering a real animal – not just its name – would have set Mumei’s heart on fire.’ Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.

You Okay for Time?

Kaori Fujino

‘She wants to talk, she wants to unburden herself, but there’s nothing left so all she can do is cry.’ Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

Sarah Moss | False Starts

Sarah Moss on making first drafts like a dressmaker makes maquettes, the notes that precede every project, and importance of reading.

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Night

Alice Munro

‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’

Human Moments in World War III

Don DeLillo

‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘The people who live in its shadow have no relation to the mountain itself’

Fellow Workers

Mary McCarthy

‘If it had not been for me, he would never have been in Mexico.’

Gentlemen

Eudora Welty

‘There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down.’

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Days of Awe

A.M. Homes

‘He is the War Correspondent, she is the Transgressive Novelist. They have been flown in for the summit on Genocide(S).’

Painter to the King

Amy Sackville

‘There are many facets to being a king; and yet all edges must appear burnished to a perfect smooth orb, shining at the centre of his empire.’ An extract from Painter to the King by Amy Sackville.

West

Caryl Phillips

‘Curling herself into a tight fist against the cold, Martha huddled in the doorway and wondered if tonight she might see snow.‘

Authors

Paul Dalla Rosa | Notes on Craft

Paul Dalla Rosa

‘I feel like I’m haunting an empty building, inert, waiting for each room to burst into flames.’

In Conversation: Will Ashon and Greg Milner

Will Ashon & Greg Milner

‘The techniques of hip-hop are always evolving – does that make it an inherently unstable technology, and is that where much of its aesthetic excitement derives from?’

Danny Denton | Notes on Craft

Danny Denton

‘My tuppence on craft is this: as a writer, you must give your reader space to experience the world of your story (whatever form it takes)’

First Sentence: Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold

‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’

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