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On Alice Coltrane
Ashley Kahn
‘I habitually compartmentalize, until an artist so singular and unrooted reminds me to reboot my thinking.’
To All My Past Neighbors
Jessica Francis Kane
‘Connections are being forged, even as we keep our distance. Let’s hold onto them in the after.’
Jessica Francis Kane on neighbourliness in the time of COVID-19.
Paris Desert, Tokyo Mirage
Hitomi Kanehara
‘What I thought was the world yesterday, today I couldn’t even touch its outline.’
Two essays by Hitomi Kanehara.
Jaan Kaplinski | On Europe
Jaan Kaplinski
‘For European thinkers, defining things has always been a serious hobby.’
Jaan Kaplinski on Europe.
Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
David Karashima
‘Luke believes that the early stories might not have been published if the author and translator were uncompromising.’
The Lake
Kapka Kassabova
‘The chalky mountain separates the lake from its higher, non-identical twin, but only overground. Underground, they are connected. Ohrid and Prespa: two lakes, one ecosystem.’
The Flowers Look More Beautiful Now Than Ever
Mieko Kawakami
‘It’s hard to imagine a country where a lockdown would function perfectly, but in the case of Japan, which lacks basic individualism, the current situation has bred insidious hatred and division.’
A Bleed of Blue
Amy Key
‘I was trying simultaneously to numb the grief I felt and to burrow into that grief, so I could stand in it.’
Caleb Klaces | Notes on Craft
Caleb Klaces
Caleb Klaces on being inspired by Van Gogh’s third image, found during the X-ray scanning of one of Van Gogh’s early, repainted canvases.
No Justice, No Peace
Chris Knapp
Chris Knapp on the systemic racism and violence of the French police, and the grassroots organisations that are campaigning for change.
Seeing Things
Emily LaBarge
‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’
Best Book of 1978: Who Do You Think You Are?
Emily LaBarge
‘I have read them so often that sometimes I cannot remember what is mine and what is hers’
