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Naples is Closed
Barry Unsworth
‘Naples had always been high on the list of places I wanted to visit‘.
Granta 167: Extraction Online
You Are the Product
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
You Are the Product
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
You Are the Product
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
You Are the Product
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
Two Poems
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth’s novels include Morality Play (Hamish Hamilton/Nan Talese) and Sacred Hunger (Penguin/W W Norton), which was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1992. His most recent novel is Land of Marvels (2009).
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