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Notes on Craft
Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Kjersti A. Skomsvold on writing The Child, a book on motherhood and grief.
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘Perhaps in isolation a new form of communication is emerging, expressing what readers and writers have always told one another, via books and letters and on the literary stage: I hear you. You are not alone.’
Victim and Accused
Vidyan Ravinthiran
‘I’m curious about the refusal to countenance a connection between disparate experiences – a route by which empathy could travel.’
Death Takes the Lagoon
Ariel Saramandi
Ariel Saramandi on the sinking of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius.
Bleak Midwinter
Catherine Taylor
‘In a sense, we had been waiting for the Ripper to visit for months, even years.’
On Running
Larissa Pham
‘This makes more sense to me as a bodily practice: that desire to push one’s physical limits well beyond their natural bounds.’
The Want
Cyrus Simonoff
‘It’s often in the morning that the want is biggest. The want is to wake up, lazy and horizontal, and have it.’
Scapegoat
Katharine Quarmby
‘In 2000 the Disability Rights Commission was founded, to push for equal rights for disabled people. It had a major job on its hands, listening to and acting on individual cases – access, transport, discrimination – and getting the 2005 Disability Discrimination Act onto the statute book.’
Introduction
Isabella Tree
‘Never has there been a greater need for writers who can communicate about the environment in such clear, immediate and powerful ways, who can envisage the past as well as the future.’
Shifting Baselines
Callum Roberts
‘Younger generations accept as normal a world that seems tainted and degraded to older people.’
Symbiotic Rootscapes
Merlin Sheldrake
‘Symbiosis – the intimate association formed between different species – is a fundamental feature of life and enables new biological possibilities. Mycorrhizal fungi are some of the more striking examples.’
Water Is Never Lonely
Judith D. Schwartz
‘This water isn’t irredeemably lost, after all. It has merely been waiting for companionship.’
