The Naming of Moths
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Lady Neptune
Ann Beattie
‘The word money popped up like a bit of the ocean’s detritus riding in on a wave, but her lips formed the words ‘Merry Christmas’.’
Upriver
Kathleen Jamie
‘I liked the way she travelled: with her iPod in one pocket, her traditional Yup’ik woman’s knife, or ulu, in the other.’
Mouse Trails
Noelle Kocot
‘What I am equipped to do is different / Than what I have been called for.’
The Hand’s Breadth Murders
Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer
‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’
The Middle Ages: Approaching the Question of a Terminal Date
David Szalay
‘What is left? What is he to wrap himself in, now that everything has floated off into space?’
Come Again/Woods
Maureen N. McLane
‘They party in the woods / as if they were meant for pleasure / not timber.’
To the Ocean
Deb Olin Unferth
‘At the desk they said they encouraged guests not to walk, but she was determined’
Hunters in the Snow
Andrew Motion
‘The hunters have all failed, / the three hunters and their forlorn dogs / now arriving home from the mountain / which thunders above their village’
Fragments
Roger Deakin & Robert Macfarlane
‘Entering a wood is to enter an element as different as the sea.’
About the Cover
Stanley Donwood
‘I took myself off to the woods, the fragments of the great forests that once spread over our continent.’
An (almost) perfect day
Anne De Gelas
‘I think of the self-portrait as a mirror of all the violence that befalls us.’
Five Things Right Now: Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about.
Two Poems
Caitlin Scarano
‘didn’t antlers grow from his head / whenever my mother’s back was turned?’
Users Manual
Julián Herbert
‘If you require further specifications, please consult your local supplier. They will be happy to help.’
Eliphaz
Raven Leilani
‘I sent messages in nine point font / arcing through the Internet, asking him / do you believe in our heavenly Father?’
Saving Mesopotamia
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’
The Intoxicated Years
Mariana Enríquez
‘They cried as if they weren’t to blame for any of it. We hated innocent people.’
Greg Jackson | First Sentence
Greg Jackson
‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’
Five Things Right Now: Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
The Tattoo
Maciej Milkowski
‘We missed our moment, reading the classics in semi-virtual travel agencies.’
Blade Culture
Atticus Lish
‘As a kid, he played video games and roughhoused on the beach and joined a gang.’
The Landlady
Geling Yan
‘After all, they were landlady and tenant; what right did he have to meddle?’
