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The Feeling Sonnets

The Feeling Sonnets

Eugene Ostashevsky

Ghillie’s Mum

Ghillie’s Mum

Lynda Clark

Addressing Mental Health Through Reading Well

Addressing Mental Health Through Reading Well

Debbie Hicks

The Swimmer

The Swimmer

Tom Lee

Shirley from a Small Place

Shirley from a Small Place

Alexia Arthurs

To the Castle and Back

Václav Havel looks back on his visit to the United States

If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder

‘By Bosnian standards, I had been an athletic person.’ – Aleksandar Hemon plays football in Chicago

The Waste Land

Marilynne Robinson on nuclear power in the United Kingdom

Africa Writes

The Royal African Society looks back at the history of the Africa Writes festival.

When Poets Write Novels

Caoilinn Hughes on the ten best novels written by poets

William Atkins In Conversation

William Atkins on deserts, exploration and monasticism.

Jean Frémon

Louise Bourgeois as I Knew Her

Novelist Jean Frémon on the artist Louise Bourgeois

The Editor’s Chair: On Christine Montalbetti

Alex Andriesse

‘For Montalbetti to have achieved this syntactic ease in French is a feat. For the translator to reproduce it in English requires the capacities of a medium.’

Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The Divine Pregnancy in a Twelve-Year-Old Woman

Sagnik Datta

Sagnik Datta’s ‘The Divine Pregnancy in a Twelve-Year-Old Woman’ is the Asian regional winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 

Matalasi

Jenny Bennett-Tuionetoa

Jenny Bennett-Tuionetoa’s ‘Matalasi’ is the Pacific winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 

The Sweet Sop

Ingrid Persaud

‘The memory of chocolate made the man crazy to see me. I became Reggie’s dealer. A voice on the phone would whisper, ‘Two Kit Kat’ and hang up.’

Cynan Jones | False Starts

Cynan Jones on Cove, the novels he’s had to put in a drawer and what it takes to get things right the first time.

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To the Castle and Back

Václav Havel

‘I am announcing that I have returned from the USA. I thank all of those who worked in the domestic resistance. Likewise I thank all of us who worked in the foreign resistance.’

If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder

Aleksandar Hemon

‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’

Court

Blake Morrison

‘One by one they’re led into the box. They swear their oath. They confirm their name, their employment, why they were where they say they were, what it was they saw.’

A Fish Out of Water

Mario Vargas Llosa

‘A democracy, I said, is driven by the electoral process, and in elections there are victories and defeats.’

The Waste Land

Marilynne Robinson

‘On the coast of Cumbria, in the Lake District, there is a nuclear reprocessing plant called Sellafield, formerly Windscale, that daily pumps up to a million gallons of radioactive waste down a mile and a half of pipeline, into the Irish Sea. It has done this for thirty-five years.’

In the Valley of Coachella

Susan Straight & Douglas McCulloh

Novelist Susan Straight and photographer Douglas McCulloh visit the Coachella valley. ‘There may be nowhere in America where the ancient and the new coexist so closely’

Authors

Cormac James | Notes on Craft

Cormac James

‘My most recent writing lesson came from Elizabeth Strout, a few months ago. Pay attention, is all she taught me, and it was plenty.’

Daniel Magariel | Five Things Right Now

Daniel Magariel

Daniel Magariel shares five things he’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Max Porter reads Will Self

Max Porter & Will Self

In this episode of the podcast, Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers reads ‘False Blood’ by Will Self.

Amit Chaudhuri | First Sentence

Amit Chaudhuri

‘A scene in which nothing is ostensibly happening will absorb me; so will a paragraph that contains no vital piece of information.’

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