‘Is it all right to smoke in this car?’
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‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Kamran Nazeer is a contributing editor at Prospect. Born of Pakistani parents, he has lived in New York, Islamabad and Glasgow. His first book is Send In the Idiots: Or How We Grew to Understand the World (Bloomsbury).
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‘His poetry sliced through the gender binary and left it gasping on the floor.’
Katherine Rundell on John Donne.
‘Up on the light box on the wall are the scans of Gary’s brain, bone white standing out against smoked grey.’
John Niven remembers the last days of his brother, Gary.
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
‘Another spring, another sequel.’
A poem by Sasha Debevec-McKenney.
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