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Waiting Room
Will Rees
‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’
Will Rees in search of a diagnosis.
Best Book of 2012: The Round House
Larissa Pham
‘Nine years after publication, Erdrich’s text still feels timely, even urgent.’
Larissa Pham’s best book of 2012.
Tala Zone
Pascale Petit
‘Even when I travel as far as India, you are with me and I am re-entering our cellar.’
Memoir by the poet Pascale Petit.
Indigenous Defenders: Why Tribes Do Conservation Better Than Conservationists
Fred Pearce
A chapter from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World.
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.
The Safe Zone
Nina Mingya Powles
An essay from Small Bodies of Water, the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize.
Pebbles
Max Porter
A new story by Max Porter – part of our series in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.
What’s in a Name?
Victoria Princewill
‘Names do not just carry intimacy, they determine the extent of it’.
Victoria Princewill on names and consent.
Some Trouble
Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo on getting in trouble – part of a new series, in partnership with The Arts House, Singapore.
Remembering Janet Malcolm
Sigrid Rausing
‘The book is in my studio and I am about to go out and buy fresh glue’.