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Writing While Worried
Fanny Britt
‘Just as it can spur me on, worry is adept at stifling and silencing.’
What is it that hurts?
France Daigle
‘Our visibility and our affirmation as a people is established through our language.’
The Canada Pictures
Douglas Coupland
‘In the year leading up to this I started collecting objects that, in some way, evoked a sense of Canadianness in me.’
Écrire Avec Facultés Affaiblies
Fanny Britt
Comme il a grandi, j’ai pensé, puis j’ai passé la débarbouillette sous l’eau tiède du lavabo de la salle de bain.
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
Davos Woman
Trisha De Borchgrave
‘Did she process my gentle hand in the same way as the objectifying touch of the men before me? Did she know the difference?’
Prozac Culture
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon on the Prozac craze of the 90s, and his experience taking the infamous antidepressant.
Soon Comes Night
Ekow Eshun
‘I’d become so used to hiding away inside myself I couldn’t respond with any spontaneity. I was stuck in the shallows of my emotions.’
Notes on a Suicide
Rana Dasgupta
‘The problem was that, for the most part, it did not matter how widely broadcast your discontent was: no one cared.’
Rana Dasgupta on digital celebrity and a suicide in the banlieues of Paris.
Out of the Cradle
John Barth
‘What had formerly been a sedative, a tranquilizing soporific, had morphed into a facilitator of reflection, contemplation, deliberation, even inspiration.’
Cyprus United
Joe Dunthorne
‘The idea that football might provide an opportunity to overcome our dumber instincts seemed ridiculous now: football was a chance to set our idiocy free.’