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Notes from an Island
Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pieitilä
‘When we woke up, the whole ocean was full of broken ice.’
An excerpt from Notes from an Island, with artwork by Tuulikki Pietilä and memoir by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal.
The Overspill
Elaine L. Wang
Elaine L. Wang remembers friendship, flag-raising ceremonies and class elections at elementary school in Beijing.
Larger than an Orange
Lucy Burns
An excerpt from Larger than an Orange, a book by Lucy Burns about abortion.
Talismans of Blood and Memory
Philip Kurian
On the worldwide campaign to return sacred objects to the ancestral communities from which they were taken.
Indigenous Defenders: Why Tribes Do Conservation Better Than Conservationists
Fred Pearce
A chapter from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World.
The Sum of Life’s Troubles Makes a Whole Damn Dish
Nuraliah Norasid
‘I have become the muscle of the operation, folding butter and egg yolks into the flour and kneading all two kilograms of dough’.
Nuraliah Norasid on women’s work.
Notes on Craft
Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques on writing her trans and non-binary characters into being.
Pourquoi avec son Père?
Jeet Thayil
‘To read Baudelaire, he said, is to gather up the world and bring it inside.’
Jeet Thayil on remembering Baudelaire in Paris and Cochin.
