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The Fruit of My Woman
Han Kang
‘It was late May when I first saw the bruises on my wife’s body.’
Fiction by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith.
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Brian Evenson
‘It wasn’t that he didn’t have a name, only that he was having difficulty locating it.’
Two Poems
Noelle Kocot
‘the problematic / Ocean spreads itself out. We take it in stride, / And we do our best.’
First Sentence: Mika Taylor
Mika Taylor
‘I didn’t want reality to overwrite the story that was forming in my head.’
Five Things Right Now: April Ayers Lawson
April Ayers Lawson
She shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Love in the Graveyards of Industry
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Love was no longer encoded in recognised behaviours, but became subject to private desires and idiosyncratic needs.’
Best Book of 2000: The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
Will Boast
Will Boast on why Lionel Trilling’s The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent is the best book of 2000.
Best Book of 1998: 253
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado on why Geoff Ryman’s 253 is the best book of 1998.
Rachel B. Glaser | Five Things Right Now
Rachel B. Glaser
Rachel B. Glaser shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Best Story of 1992: ‘Mlle. Dias de Corta’
Mary O’Donoghue
Mary O’Donoghue on why Mavis Gallant‘s ‘Mlle. Dias de Corta’ is the best story of 1992.
Best Book of 2008: The Alphabet
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout on why Ron Silliman's The Alphabet is the best book of 2008.
Best Book of 1901: The Octopus
Rob Magnuson Smith
Rob Magnuson Smith on why Frank Norris' The Octopus is the best book of 1901.
Best Story of 1965: ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender on why Flannery O’Connor's ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’ is the best story of 1965.
Best Book of 2003: The Curious Life of Robert Hooke
Daisy Hildyard
Daisy Hildyard on why Lisa Jardine's The Curious Life of Robert Hooke is the best book of 2003.
Best Book of 2015: After The Dance
Dimitry Elias Léger
Dimitry Elias Léger on why Jan Gaye's After the Dance is the best book of 2015.
Best Book of 1981: Lanark
Lorna Gibb
Lorna Gibb on why Alasdair Gray's Lanark is the best book of 1981.
Best Book of 2017: Shadowbahn
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem on why Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn is the best book of a year to come.
Best Book of 1984: Amalgamemnon
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh on why Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon is the best book of 1984.
Best Book of 2006: The Re-Emergence of Global Finance
Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough on why Gary Burn's The Re-Emergence of Global Finance is the best book of 2006.
Best Book of 1955: Pedro Páramo
Louise Stern
Louise Stern on why Pedro Páramo is the best book of 1955.
Best Book of 1970: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Callan Wink
Why Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is the best book of 1970.
Patrick deWitt and Neel Mukherjee in Conversation
Patrick deWitt & Neel Mukherjee
Neel Mukherjee and Patrick deWitt discuss their books Undermajordomo Minor and The Lives of Others, subconscious influence, the power of the exclamation mark and love.
Bad Luck, Britain
Fredrik Sjöberg
‘It was a wonderful day of high summer in the Stockholm archipelago.’
Barnby Dun
Colin Grant
‘Restored nature would be a phantom of its former self. The experience would be akin to visiting a wildlife park.’
Five Things Right Now: Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot
‘This is not only poetic, to think of the Creator as a big bird, but also quite mysterious.’
Bezoar
Guadalupe Nettel
‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.
Five Parties
Ned Beauman
‘The second year, I noticed before anyone else that the Coelophysis was trying to escape.’
Introduction: What Have We Done
Sigrid Rausing
‘There is an apocalyptic feeling in the air. I write the day after the news that the IS have blown up parts of the ancient site of Palmyra.’
The Invitation
Barry Lopez
‘The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere.’
