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If Mother’s Happy
Kathleen McCaul Moura
‘Towards the end of my pregnancy, like many women, my emotions were taut, stretched thin like the skin round my middle.’
My Heart Hemmed In
Marie NDiaye
‘I stagger from the shock. I feel the corners of my mouth turning down. My jaw begins to tremble. Yes, yes, yes, I say to myself, get ahold of yourself.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Luke Neima
Not long before he died on 21 December 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald recorded himself reading a version of John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
Best Book of 1818: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Luke Neima
‘What sets Hoffmann’s work apart is the meeting of the joint impulses of Enlightenment and Romantic thought’
The Death of Margaret Roe
Nat Newman
The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner from the Pacific. ‘Every person has their own secrets, but Margaret Roe had Havilah Brown’s.’
Hoa Nguyen | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Hoa Nguyen
‘I didn’t have the language for why I could not be a tourist in the same way as my white counterparts.’
All the Caged Things
Chinelo Okparanta
‘All that thought of home gave the girl a sickly feeling, the longing of something so out of reach, something she wasn’t even sure she could any longer truly remember.’
Chekhov’s Ladies
Edna O’Brien
‘Malachi is brushing her hair, long, dark brown and with russet glints. She likes it, as he can tell from her smile in the mirror.’
