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The Good Citizens
Christy Edwall
‘In the black fog of her grief, Anna Kraft received an invitation.’
The Politics of English Forgetfulness
Madeleine Bunting
‘Brexit demonstrates one of England’s most trusted strategies of power: deliberate forgetfulness.’
The Raingod’s Green, Dark as Passion
Kevin Barry
‘If cities are sexed, as Jan Morris believes, then Cork is a male place. Personified further, I would cast him as low-sized, disputatious and stoutly built, a hard-to-knock-over type.’
The Secret Afterlife of Boats
Anna Badkhen
‘The sea is broken,’ they say. An empty net at night: a drooping lattice of shiny nothingness, a cold and worthless tinsel mesh.
The Threshold
Oliverio Coelho
‘In the not-too-distant future, all men would be on their feet, reduced to wearing out their soles on the streets.’
The Visitor
Colin Barrett
‘The dog was some sort of overbred weedling with a ribcage fine-boned as a chicken’s, a wizened rat’s face and a goony, perpetually bloodshot stare that made Dev Hendrick want to punt the thing over the garden gate.’
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
‘Lib didn’t like to bang harder in case of disturbing the family. Brightness leaked from the door of the byre, off to her right. Ah, the women had to be milking. A trail of melody; was one of them singing to the cows?’
Traffic
Rae Armantrout
‘Music needs silence / more than silence needs music.’ New poetry by Rae Armantrout.
Violence in Blue
Patrick Ball
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
Wendy
Ka Bradley
‘Nathan: there’s something in the basement. In the locked rooms I was telling you about.’
