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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.
At the Edge of Night
Friedo Lampe
An excerpt from Friedo Lampe’s At the Edge of Night, translated from the German by Simon Beattie.
The Nine Circles
Margo Rejmer
‘The body wants to escape suffering at all costs. The body wants to live.’
Two Poems
Julia Copus
‘The me that was then / follows, watching from the dark / theatre of my skull.’
The Silk Road
Kathryn Davis
‘The choice of starting point wasn’t important; the important thing was to cycle through the same sequence of edges.’
Introduction
Devorah Baum & Josh Appignanesi
‘Troubling though they may be, feelings also tell us something about power and its limitations.’
Touch
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
‘Touch had its own language, and the rules were the opposite of the ones I knew at home.’
Borderland
Olga Tokarczuk
New fiction from Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft.
Lazy Boy
Josh Cohen
‘I don’t see him staring back at me from the La-Z-Boy, I see me, I see a crystalline image of my own burned-out soul’
Politics in the Consulting Room
Adam Phillips & Devorah Baum
‘In politics people think they know what they want, and in psychoanalysis the assumption is that they don’t know.’ Adam Phillips in conversation with Devorah Baum.
The Politics of Feeling
Nick Laird
‘Everything already is fraying at the edges if not completely gone.’
Distilling Existence: A Study with Wilson Amunga
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Bernd Hartung
‘If the river makes a sound now, it is a drawn-out moan.’ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on distilleries in Kenya, with photographs by Bernd Hartung.
The Guests
Hisham Matar
‘Strangely, it was Joseph Conrad who introduced me to Edward Said and not the other way around.’
Feeling Southern: A Patagonian Story
Fabián Martínez Siccardi
‘I was harbouring a southern feeling, a deep connection with the South of this real world, where I was born and will probably die.’
Picking Up Nathan from the Airport
Benjamin Markovits
‘When shit like this happens, people don’t walk out on fifteen-year marriages.’
#TeamBaddiel vs #TeamBabel
David Baddiel
‘Social media has allowed everyone in the world to raise their own little flag of self’
The Tension of Transience
Chloe Aridjis
‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’
How I Became an SJW
Anouchka Grose
‘I had become a pacifist in the time it took to run between the bedroom and the bathroom of a London flat.’
