A Walk to Kobe
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a cold white wing
Kate Zambreno
‘I wonder what I sounded like, whether my voice was recognizable as the animal I had been.’
Fiction by Kate Zambreno.
The Starlings of Dunmore Died on the Eleventh of July
Dawn Watson
‘Black was thrown / in all directions.’
Beirut Fragments, 2021
Charif Majdalani
‘We live with the permanent sense of imminent disaster.’
Charif Majdalani on the situation in Beirut. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver.
Tender
Ariana Harwicz
‘Why can’t the heart keep still and why isn’t the brain smooth to the touch.’
An excerpt from Ariana Harwicz’s novel Tender.
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au
‘I wondered how I could feel so at home in a place that was not mine.’
An excerpt from Jessica Au's novel Cold Enough for Snow.
Here Again Now
Okechukwu Nzelu
‘There was a division in his mind: home was Manchester; work was London, LA, Lagos.’ Fiction from Okechukwu Nzelu.
When We Were Birds
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
‘Some days Darwin can’t work out how long he in the city.’
An excerpt from Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel.
She Used to Sing Opera
Imogen Crimp
‘I used to be ashamed of it, though I’m not sure what exactly felt shameful.’
On training to be an opera singer.
Here Comes the Miracle
Anna Beecher
‘They so wanted to be the grown-ups still.’
An excerpt from Anna Beecher’s debut novel, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer Award 2021.
Two Poems
Yanyi
‘A hotel being where we buy the right to stay still when no place will stay for us.’
Two poems by Yanyi.
Violets
Alex Hyde
‘There was the enamel pail of blood. She couldn’t think what she had done with it.’
An excerpt from Alex Hyde’s debut novel.
The Colony
Audrey Magee
‘Imagine that, said Mairéad. A Frenchman and an Englishman squabbling over our turf.’
A linguist and a painter clash in this excerpt from The Colony by Audrey Magee.
Three Poems
Jana Prikryl
‘I struggled to put this into words as strong as my conviction, so what advice could I give you I said’
Three poems by Jana Prikryl.
In a Jar
Morgan Talty
‘It was a glass jar filled with hair and corn and teeth. The teeth were white with a tint of yellow at the root.’
A story by Morgan Talty.
Nights at the Hotel Splendido
Sam Munson
‘Everybody’s face looks different at night, especially outside. You see their real faces.’
A new story by Sam Munson.
From Another World
Evelina Santangelo
An excerpt from the novel From Another World, translated from the Italian by Ruth Clarke.
Two Poems
Alycia Pirmohamed
‘I encounter the first woman / by encountering my own face in the river. / Two bodies alike, one drenched / in inheritance.’ Two poems by Alycia Pirmohamed
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
An excerpt from Earthlings, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Notes on Craft
Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.
The Infinite Room
Claudia Durastanti
‘My life as a writer depends on irony and metaphor, and my parents are horrified and alienated by both.’
Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris.
In Conversation
Will Alexander & James Goodwin
‘I may have mentioned this at a prior time but there are around 250,000 words in the English language, yet within the utilitarian scale they seem consumed according to advertising and profit.’
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
Publishing March 2023 FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the...
Notes on Craft
Alex Hyde
‘The scrubbing of floors or rugs. People down on their knees, “tamping” the stain.’ Alex Hyde on the everyday gestures that make a life.
Best Book of 1930: The Man Without Qualities
Elaine L. Wang
Elaine L. Wang on the best book of 1930: The Man Without Qualities.
Best Book of 2012: The Round House
Larissa Pham
‘Nine years after publication, Erdrich’s text still feels timely, even urgent.’
Larissa Pham’s best book of 2012.
Best Book of 2019: A Month in Siena
Emmanuel Iduma
‘In art he finds the language with which to exchange mourning for some measure of equanimity.’
Emmanuel Iduma’s best book of 2019.
Best Book of 1982: A Boy’s Own Story
O Thiam Chin
‘It didn’t occur to me that reading and being a reader was two very distinct things, one an act and a skill, and the other a role and a persona’
O Thiam Chin’s best book of 1982.
Double Date
Sasha Fletcher
‘Off in the distance, the landlords laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed!’
An excerpt from the new novel by Sasha Fletcher.
Signal
Zakia Uddin
‘I had begun to google the therapist reflexively whenever I was bored.’
A short story by Zakia Uddin.
