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The Most Common State of Matter

Cara Blue Adams

‘She was quietly awed by her own panic.’

In Search of Beauty: Blackness as a Poem in Saudi Arabia

Sulaiman Addonia

Sulaiman Addonia on the slow process of rediscovering the beauty of black skin after moving to Saudi Arabia as a child.

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Edoardo Albert

Edoardo Albert, author of Warrior, writes about five archaeological findings that brought the past to life.

The Wind That Lays Waste

Selva Almada

‘Leni’s last image of her mother is from the rear window of the car.’

Quantum Displacement

Nuar Alsadir

‘I don’t want / to be a figure others lean their names into’

Animalia

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

An excerpt from Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

Three Poems

Anthony Anaxagorou

‘we are born / to a siren and the wail of each other’

Daddy Issues

Katherine Angel

‘We need to keep the modern, civilised father on the hook.’

Our Home Is Mortal Too

Katherine Angel

Katherine Angel on Stromae and Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium.

Insurrecto

Gina Apostol

‘She does not go home for her mother's funeral because the prospect of return gives her insomnia. She splurges on a coat from Miu Miu instead.’

The Tension of Transience

Chloe Aridjis

‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’

Two Poems

Rae Armantrout

‘A glowing purse / that unlatches / with a snap’

Longshore Drift

Julia Armfield

‘She has never been very keen on the thought of herself as other people see her.’