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The Life and Death of a Homosexual
Pierre Clastres
‘There was no sweetness in the air that day: the corpse gave off a terrible stench’.
Interesting if True
Phillip Knightley
‘The end of the war in the Pacific came just before I left school.’
Hawk
Joy Williams
‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’
Dear Peter
Simon Armitage & Ted Hughes
An unpublished letter by Ted Hughes, introduced by Simon Armitage. ‘It’s reassuring to see a spelling mistake (‘style’ for stile), and I love the maps.’
The Pretty Women of Paris
Anonymous
‘For the last fifteen years she has been richly kept by a Russian prince, who revels in her brutality, viciousness, extravagance and love of brandy.’
Two Poems
Jack Underwood
‘We are nearing the conclusion of this anatomy. / We are strung between the point of ending, and / the point of having started.’
Too Hard to Keep
Jason Lazarus & Ariana Reines
‘There are days I can’t even remember the things I want to know.’
The Last Thing We Need
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘I think there will be lightning tonight; the air has that feel.’
Look-Alikes
Nadine Gordimer
‘It was scarcely worth noticing at first; an out-of-work lying under one of the rare indigenous shrubs cultivated by the Botany Department on the campus.’
Binyavanga Wainaina | Podcast
Binyavanga Wainaina & Ellah Allfrey
Binyavanga Wainaina talks to Ellah Allfrey about meeting the expectations of an African readership and what to do with a bad review.
The Mast Year
Diane Cook
‘Sounds like a mast year . . . it’s a thing that happens to trees. But sometimes it happens to people too.’
