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Round One
Benjamin Nugent
‘On the day the doctors extracted the eggs from her ovaries, he would have to go into a room in the hospital and produce.’
Fiction by Benjamin Nugent.
England’s Other Island
Owen Hatherley & Tereza Červeňová
‘A Victorian summer utopia perpetually falling into dereliction and desuetude.’
Owen Hatherley on the Isle of Wight, with photography by Tereza Červeňová.
Appendix
K Patrick
‘The appendix appeared. Half of it already distended, deep maroon, a twisted and flashing smile.’
Fiction by K Patrick.
Troubadour
Edward Salem
‘There were always too many white activists and upper-class European NGO workers, foreign queers and queer adjacents who were there for the anecdote, hoping to bed a native before their visa ended.’
Fiction by Edward Salem.
Bombed in Beirut
Myriam Boulos
‘What to do as a photographer in a war where even simple family portraits have become trophies?’
Myriam Boulos photographs displaced workers in Beirut.
The Hurt Business
Declan Ryan
‘Honour, or anything approaching it, sits vanishingly low on the priority list.’
Declan Ryan on boxing and the fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois.
The First Person
Kathryn Scanlan
‘I picked up a dry leaf, and when the caterpillar climbed aboard, I carried the leaf to the safety of the grass and set it down at the base of a tree.’
Fiction by Kathryn Scanlan.
Champion
Prarthna Singh & Snigdha Poonam
‘As Prarthna took photographs, I stood in the doorway watching the school-age girls with taut muscles and intense focus lock in bouts across the length of the hall.’
Snigdha Poonam on wrestling and the photography of Prarthna Singh.
The Dance
Mircea Cărtărescu
‘In the center of the palace was the Exit, blocked by a ferocious guardian, whom none could pass.’
Fiction by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter.
A Star in the Book of Liars
Justin Taylor
‘When Jean was nearly seventeen years old, she instigated an affair with a house painter in his early forties who played drums in a Beatles cover band.’
Fiction by Justin Taylor.
Flesh
David Szalay
‘She kneels on the floor and takes it in her mouth again. He’s looking at the top of her head, at the roots of her hair where the blonde, he now sees, is slightly mixed with grey.’
Fiction by David Szalay.
Four Poems
Hu Xudong
‘That shiny / black tooth exuding the indisputable / urgency of the bite’
Four poems by Hu Xudong, translated by Margaret Ross.
