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A Numbered Graph That Shows How Each Part of the Body Would Fit Into A Chair
Mary Jo Bang
‘It’s a simple truth that one can occupy two / places at one time while sitting in a chair—the same way a / poseable doll can be divided from her dress.’
A Page Pounded Clean
Kathryn Scanlan
‘There was no shriek, no gore, but the tail – it looked electrically charged.’
A story by Kathryn Scanlan.
A Perfect Cemetery
Federico Falco
An excerpt from Federico Falco’s story collection A Perfect Cemetery.
A Pinch of Salt
Andrea Brady
‘When we’re close to weaning / ourselves history gives us its reasons / to return’
A Place I’d Go To
Kathryn Scanlan
‘They were very old and had to be carried down the hall to the examination room and lifted onto and off the scale like sacks of tender, bruisable fruit.’
A story by Kathryn Scanlan.
A Place on Earth: Scenes from a War
Anjan Sundaram
Dense forest and formless roads lead Anjan Sundaram to the sites of conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014.
A Place that Belongs to Us
Daniel Trilling
‘The notes belong to you, said the guards, but the paper you wrote them on is ours.’
Fragmentary non-fiction by Daniel Trilling.
A Plausible Portrait
Ted Hodgkinson
‘My friends say I am secretive and devious,’ he wrote in the introduction to Picasso and Dora. ‘They’re right.’
A Plug for Bukowski
Henry Davis
‘There is an American literature that is anti-intellectual, apolitical and anti-social.’
A Poet in Cuba
Reinaldo Arenas
‘Perfect totalitarian systems have always been in the vanguard: they modify not only the past and the future, but they also abolish the present.’
