The General Mills factory, Chicago, 1949
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‘I grew up in a factory town, Aurora, Illinois, some forty miles west of Chicago.’
The General Mills factory, Chicago, 1949
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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.
Thom Jones is the author of the short-story collections The Pugilist At Rest, The Cold Snap and Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine (Faber/Little, Brown).
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‘Question: ‘What do a Trabant and a condom have in common?’ Answer: ‘Both decrease the pleasure of the ride.’’
Durs Grünbein introduces photography by Martin Roemers.
‘It would be many years before I understood that around my mother’s sober acceptance of the status quo was a whole culture she had developed for our subsistence and well-being.’
A short story by Jianan Qian on stray dogs, desperation and re-education in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
‘She’s a good-for-nothing chummer. If she survives a week on the slime line without cutting off her thumb or slicing her wrist, she’s hired.’
En 1967, on a scrupuleusement désigné le Canada comme dominion, une expression empruntée au...
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