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Malandrino

Joe Stretch

‘On the doorstep, in the glare of the security lamp, was a thin, bearded man holding a black, breathless terrier.’

Fiction by Joe Stretch.

Export-Import

Karan Mahajan

‘Thanks to what Chetan had published, he and his parents were in trouble, and he was exiled from India.’

Fiction by Karan Mahajan.

The Institute

Maia Siegel

‘The Institute was meeting at Yale, at a corner bar with a pool table and subpar beer. It was only a society at this point, attempting to build itself out.’

Fiction by Maia Siegel.

How Asians Spend the Night Before Dawn

Vera Yijun Zhou

‘At night her friends let loose and relax.’

Photography by Vera Yijun Zhou of house parties and clubs in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.

The Ghost Coat

Catherine Lacey

‘I’d had quite enough of everything. I vowed to no longer mistake obedience for love.’

Fiction by Catherine Lacey.

Pax Domestica

Victor Heringer

‘The whole family: yay. I love my family. (Don’t I.)’

Fiction by Victor Heringer, translated by James Young.

Doing the Work

Geoff Dyer

‘My life is full of regrets – I sometimes think I regret everything about my life – but I’ve never regretted the time spent riding the rails of Thatcher’s Britain.’

Geoff Dyer on conducting market research in the eighties.

In Conversation

Olivia Laing & Jamaica Kincaid

‘The garden is actually an archive, every plant bringing with it a narrative of past injustice, upheaval, shifts in wealth and taste.’

Olivia Laing and Jamaica Kincaid discuss the political significance of the garden.

Doing the Work

Rebecca May Johnson

‘When work is at mealtime, when is mealtime?’

Rebecca May Johnson on waitressing, hunger and eating at work.

Paper People

Yun Sheng

‘Otome games are about women writing romance plots designed to please women – paper hubbies and their voice actors are just a conduit to make the experience more believable.’

Yun Sheng on the rise of virtual love in China.