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The Duchess of Albany
Christine Schutt
‘The permanence of his absence is a noise she hears when she listens to how quiet.’
Oh, the Obvious
Christine Schutt
‘A wizened spring, the sickly prickly pear and organ pipe cacti were so riddled with holes they might have been targets.’
Five Skeins
Sarah V. Schweig
‘In my crumbling country every day, / people spend their lives standing in lines / to buy designer sneakers.’
Florianópolis
Paulo Scott
‘Even in a year in which Brazilians are not that excited about the competition, once the ref whistles and the match kicks off, an entire nation is frozen, hypnotised before their television screens. It’s the great truce, the great anaesthetic.’
All the Devils Are Here
David Seabrook
‘A seaside shelter in the middle of autumn – it seems a strange choice.’
Tyger, Tyger
Aman Sethi
‘A man-eating tiger was on the prowl when I arrived in Pilibhit one rainy evening in September.’
What Silence Knows
Anthony Shadid
‘Words can’t quite re-create the smell of war. I have found myself trying to wash it out of my hair, off my fingers. More than once, I have run water over the soles of my shoes.’
Mother’s Death
Stephen Sharp
‘Last year father attacked me as a “wet radish”. This caused me to give up writing diary entries.’
Diary
Gunnar Smoliansky
These prints from Gunnar Smoliansky's Diary consolidated his position as a major photographer.
Five Poems
Irene Solà
‘I wore off my tongue / like candy’ Translated from the Catalan by Oscar Holloway.
The Minutes
Nell Stevens
‘The Minutes’ by Nell Stevens is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018.
