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The Ninth Spring: One Day at the Kolibi

Kapka Kassabova

Kapka Kassabova visits the Osmanovi family in the southern Balkans.

回 | An Alley (Return)

Jessica J. Lee

‘I had never known an alley to be so green.’

Jessica J. Lee returns to Taipei.

Notes on Craft

Scholastique Mukasonga

‘It was the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis that made me a writer.’

Invisible Loyalty

Jan Morris

An essay on Welsh identity from Allegorizings, the final book from the late Jan Morris.

The Translator I Never Wanted to Be

Mariam Rahmani

‘Translation had always struck me as unsexy. Or perhaps something more insidious than that.’

On translating In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali.

A Hunger

Fran Lock

Both has a way of being neither.’

An essay by Fran Lock from the anthology Queer Life, Queer Love.

Talismans of Blood and Memory

Philip Kurian

On the worldwide campaign to return sacred objects to the ancestral communities from which they were taken.

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.

Horse

Sandra Newman

‘It was a rescue horse, but a horse.’

Memoir by Sandra Newman.

Confusion of Tongues

Fernanda Melchor

‘For a long time I avoided saying his name.’

Tiki Girl

Amanda Lee Koe

‘One learns not to hold on too tightly to anything in Singapore’

Stone Fruit

Lee Lai

From the new graphic novel by artist Lee Lai.

Notes on Craft

Jonathan Lee

The author of The Great Mistake discusses the importance of opening lines.

Mr Brown, Mrs White and Ms Black

Kei Miller

‘Yes, Ms Black. Mrs White and Mr Brown have arrived.’

An new essay by poet Kei Miller, from his forthcoming collection.