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Learning to Sing
Lydia Davis
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
Diminishing Returns
Fatin Abbas
‘Alex had been sent to this remote district between north and south Sudan to update maps. It was an information-gathering project run by an American NGO based in the capital, Khartoum, nine hundred kilometers to the north.’
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
‘There was something Shakespearean about imperious men going down on you: the mighty have fallen.’
Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times is shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award.
Some Rivers Meet
James Clarke
‘What a thing it must be to lose your marbles on your own, with not even enough milk in the fridge for a proper brew.’
Fiction by James Clarke.
Line A—B
Mark Blacklock
‘Never was a man so deep in thought.’
An extract from Mark Blacklock’s new novel.
Sing Stone, Speak Fire
Dan Bradley
‘The emergency cords have been removed from the carriages for some time.’
A new story by Dan Bradley.
Indelicacy
Amina Cain
‘Every morning and night I walked through that city, to and from the museum.’
From Amina Cain’s new novel.
The Normal Life
Dulce Maria Cardoso
‘Blood had started to come out from within, thick and dark blood that forced me to use sanitary pads every month.’
Don’t Look at Me Like That
Diana Athill
‘When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn’t far from true.’
Visitors Rev. 4
Anne Carson
‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’
