Fiction | Issue 169

Zou Jingzhi

‘As a young man, I wanted to learn how to love, but in the end, I did nothing. I wanted to torture myself, but didn’t know where to begin.’

Fiction by Zou Jingzhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 168

Snigdha Poonam

‘Ask anyone in Ayodhya, and they will say the city’s Hindu–Muslim harmony can withstand any test.’

Snigdha Poonam on the construction of a Hindu temple on the ruins of a mosque in Utter Pradesh.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 162

Amitava Kumar

‘In Delhi the heat is chemical, something unworldly, a dry bandage or heating pad wrapped around the body.’

Memoir by Amitava Kumar.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Tess Gunty

An excerpt from Tess Gunty’s debut novel The Rabbit Hutch.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Kanya D’Almeida

Overall winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, as well as winner for the region of Asia.

Fiction | The Online Edition

Bhanu Kapil

‘Every person who travelled here is unsteady, I can feel that.’

Poetry | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Lena Andersson

‘Anticipation made it difficult for Ester to swallow.’ Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown on Swedish society and the Trollhättan school attack.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | Issue 136

Suzanne Brøgger

‘My habit of being a dreamer is filled with the joy of melancholy.’

Fiction | Issue 131

Ludmila Ulitskaya

‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 131

Aman Sethi

‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’

In Conversation | Issue 131

John Burnside & Rachael Allen

‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’

Interviews | Issue 131

Adolf Hoffmeister & James Joyce

For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake in a rare and intimate interview from 1930.

Fiction | Issue 76

Julian Barnes

‘Naturally the artist is misunderstood. That is normal, and after a while becomes familiar.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 47

Julian Barnes

‘Sceptics maintain that live chess is as enthralling as watching paint dry. Ultra-sceptics reply: unfair to paint'.