Five Things Right Now: John Darnielle
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Donut County
Kate Lister Campbell
‘The fertility process is more like gambling than investment.’
Two women meet in an IVF clinic in this short story by Kate Lister Campbell.
Prologue
Eugene Lim
‘What was she ushering in and what was a grand program for which she was simply helpless agent?’
An excerpt from Search History by Eugene Lim.
Notes from an Island
Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pieitilä
‘When we woke up, the whole ocean was full of broken ice.’
An excerpt from Notes from an Island, with artwork by Tuulikki Pietilä and memoir by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal.
Naomi
Sarah Hall
‘When I was eight, my mother died and Naomi arrived.’
An excerpt from Burntcoat by Sarah Hall.
A Page Pounded Clean
Kathryn Scanlan
‘There was no shriek, no gore, but the tail – it looked electrically charged.’
A story by Kathryn Scanlan.
A Stiff Flame from the Neck
Kathryn Scanlan
‘I gripped her and struck the wheel on her neck, but I couldn’t get it to spark.’
A story by Kathryn Scanlan.
In Conversation
Sarah Shin & Grace M. Cho
‘I’m drawn to the irrational because it has the potential to radicalise our senses.’
The authors discuss ghosts, transgenerational mourning and communal cooking.
Two Poems
Edmund Hardy
‘Feeling Real’ and ‘I Miss Myself / Shared Oranges’ by poet and filmmaker Edmund Hardy.
Two Poems
Radna Fabias
‘we welcome the applicant.’ Two poems by Radna Fabias translated by David Colmer.
The Overspill
Elaine L. Wang
Elaine L. Wang remembers friendship, flag-raising ceremonies and class elections at elementary school in Beijing.
Oldladyvoice
Elisa Victoria
‘I hope I never have to miss a playdate for catechism.’
An excerpt from Oldladyvoice, translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle.
Larger than an Orange
Lucy Burns
An excerpt from Larger than an Orange, a book by Lucy Burns about abortion.
Talismans of Blood and Memory
Philip Kurian
On the worldwide campaign to return sacred objects to the ancestral communities from which they were taken.
Just the Plague
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘It seems to be more than he can cope with.’
An excerpt from Ulitskaya’s newly translated novel Just the Plague.
An Adult Taste
Kang Young-sook
‘The blood that flowed down the drain was a deep dark red, but it appeared clean, even refreshing.’
A new story by Kang Young-sook, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.
Indigenous Defenders: Why Tribes Do Conservation Better Than Conservationists
Fred Pearce
A chapter from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World.
The Sum of Life’s Troubles Makes a Whole Damn Dish
Nuraliah Norasid
‘I have become the muscle of the operation, folding butter and egg yolks into the flour and kneading all two kilograms of dough’.
Nuraliah Norasid on women’s work.
In Conversation
Abi Palmer & Alice Hattrick
The authors discuss the practice of writing about illness, explore the idea of crip time and critique the value of medical labels.
Three Poems
fred spoliar
‘We could live in the cities of / A very normal family like I like / writing copy for it.’
Three poems by fred spoliar.
Notes on Craft
Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques on writing her trans and non-binary characters into being.
Pourquoi avec son Père?
Jeet Thayil
‘To read Baudelaire, he said, is to gather up the world and bring it inside.’
Jeet Thayil on remembering Baudelaire in Paris and Cochin.
In Conversation
Hatty Nestor & Nathalie Olah
A discussion on the class system, the decline of criticism and driving on American highways, by the authors of Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice and Steal as much as you can.
Appamma in London
Anuk Arudpragasam
An excerpt from A Passage North, longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Me, Rory and Aurora
Jonas Eika
A new story by Danish writer Jonas Eika, from the collection After the Sun. Translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.
