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My Enemy’s Cherry Tree
Wang Ting-Kuo
‘And the truth is, my heart was tied in knots, and pain bored into the marrow of my bones when I heard about his illness.’
In Search of Beauty: Blackness as a Poem in Saudi Arabia
Sulaiman Addonia
Sulaiman Addonia on the slow process of rediscovering the beauty of black skin after moving to Saudi Arabia as a child.
Two Poems
Jenny George
‘This had happened once before, / when my life first split / into comfort and pain.’
Exhale
Beth Gardiner
‘After all my travels, I can see now what I couldn’t when I started. In the suffering pollution brings, there is also the glimmer of a different future, its outlines visible through the haze.’
Oval
Elvia Wilk
‘We’re trying to prove that it’s possible to live sustainably and not be such a freak about it.’
How Do You Write a Memoir When You Can’t Remember?
Wendy Mitchell & Anna Wharton
Wendy Mitchell, who has been living with dementia since 2014, discusses the process of writing her memoir with her ghostwriter, Anna Wharton.
The Power of a Name
Rebecca Tamás
‘When English is the dominant everything, you can’t help wanting to fight for the little speck of the rest of your self.’
Maid Marian
Lisa Taddeo
‘It had taken Noni many years to stop wishing she’d been a woman like that.’
A Mother’s Dilemma
Victor Lodato
‘I can hear the girl scratching a pencil inside a notebook. I don’t like it. I’ve asked her not to write about me.’
The Governesses
Anne Serre
‘For the governesses, moving in with Monsieur and Madame Austeur was like a homecoming.’
On Meeting Mrs Obama
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
‘Michelle’s story, while deeply rooted in the American story, speaks to experiences that are universal.’
The Pine Islands
Marion Poschmann
‘Gilbert Silvester woke up distraught. Mathilda’s black hair lay spread out on the pillow next to him, tentacles of a malevolent pitch-black jellyfish.’
Two Poems
Yanyi
‘It murmurs beneath the crust of the ground, or a person who serves as the ground you stand on.’
Radicalisation in the Digital Age
Marc Weitzmann
Marc Weitzmann on how radicalisation happens in the digital age.
Animalia
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
An excerpt from Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
The Poem in the Pocket
Héctor Abad Faciolince
‘The note stated that it was by Borges, and I believed that, or at least I wanted to believe it.’
Ghostlands
Jennifer Kabat
Jennifer Kabat on the Anti-Rent War, one of the earliest moments of rural populism in the US, and something few know about outside the Catskill Mountains.
On High Heels and Lotus Feet
Summer Brennan
Summer Brennan on high heels, foot-binding, and our ongoing performances of gender.
The Polyglot Lovers
Lina Wolff
‘When we were sixteen years old, I broke Johnny’s nose with the back of my hand.’
In Conversation
Daisy Johnson & Alan Trotter
Daisy Johnson and Alan Trotter discuss their latest novels, how they approach research, and the ways in which myths, horror movies and detective fiction influence their writing.
The Main Thing Is to Keep the Front Garden Immaculate
Simone Buchholz
An extract from Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz, translated from the German by Rachel Ward.
Vintage 1954
Antoine Laurain
An extract from Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Jane Aitken.
A Night in the Engadine
John Kaag
John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche, camps out in the mountains of the Engadine where Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
10 Schools of Philosophy that should be better known (in the West)
Julian Baggini
The author of How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy explains ten of the most overlooked philosophies from around the world.
Martin Goodman | Notes on Craft
Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman on why it took him twenty years to write his latest novel, J SS Bach.
