Dense forest and formless roads lead Sundaram to the most recent sites of conflict, burnt-out villages where pigs have taken over their former owner’s homes in an ‘inversion of man and beast, of civilization and nature’.
They returned to the beginning. War approached, and the city was being emptied. I walked two miles into the wild with a boy who showed me how Gaga – and the country, the Central African Republic – was being turned inside out. The jungle paths had become the alleyways of a more secretive, older f…
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Alison Smith on the week she spent with Ursula K. Le Guin.
This surreal tale from Haruki Murakami circles a Charlie Parker album that never existed. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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Summer Brennan on high heels, foot-binding, and our ongoing performances of gender.
‘Sometimes we don’t quite know what we’re seeing.’
An extract from Guest House For Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni, nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020.
‘One starless night, I was stranded. Needless to say, foreigners are often stranded.’
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