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Issue 122

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Issue 122

Seven Days in Syria

Janine di Giovanni

‘I had come to Syria because I wanted to see a country before it tumbled down the rabbit hole of war’

Issue 122

Flowers Appear on the Earth

Samantha Harvey

‘In their deepest sorrow the islanders buried the ashes of their forty-six dead’

Issue 122

Kopfkino

Chloe Aridjis

‘Yet the little white disks with a dent down the middle are no panacea; whenever I take one of these thought guillotines I feel trapped in a grey zone’.

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