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‘The flirtations of insects and plants are furtive, hidden and often so brief that if you literally blink you might miss what exactly is going on.’
Dino J. Martins on moths and orchids, from Granta 153: Second Nature.
‘The origin of the dysfunctional family: spores. / Friend or foe? True fern or ally?’
Poems by Sylvia Legris, author of Garden Physic.
‘And the trees were safely tucked in. Their roots were rallying in the soil, in this coil. Would the woman also take a turn for the better in her last decade?’
Three stories by Diane Williams.
‘walking alone down a country road – / distracted by the slightly annoying and toxic / first green of spring, eyes overflowing’
A poem by Emily Skillings.
‘Whatever the aftermath, you won’t see the city again except through the agency of absence, recalling this semi-emptiness, this viral uncertainty.’
From 2020: China Miéville on the UK government’s response to coronavirus.
Maxim Osipov is a Russian writer and cardiologist. He has published short stories, novellas, essays and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. Osipov’s writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Rock, Paper, Scissors (NYRB Classics). ‘An English Opening’ is an extract from the story ‘Pieces on a Plane’ from Kilometer 101, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Alex Fleming, and forthcoming in October from NYRB Classics.
More about the author →Alex Fleming is a literary translator from Russian and Swedish. Her translations include works by Maxim Osipov, Katrine Marçal and Camilla Sten, and have featured in Asymptote, Litro and Image Journal. She is the editor of Swedish Book Review.
More about the translator →‘He runs through the events of the day in his mind. Fairly frightening, really: the sudden request for his file, the question about the government. And the silence.’
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
‘When I was growing up in his house, religion was his crutch, a justification for his behaviour.’
Kevin Childs on growing up queer in a Catholic household.
‘The body is the first measurement of time: to reclaim time is to reclaim the body.’
Jason Allen-Paisant in Haiti.
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
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