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Notes on Craft
Missouri Williams
‘After a series of seizures in my temporal lobe, I started to forget words and say sentences backwards.’
Missouri Williams on the drive to circle back.
The Stars Are Blind
Anna Dorn
‘A few years ago, while in between jobs, I started doing astrology readings for cash.’
Anna Dorn on her astrology journey.
On Marble
Rachel Cusk
‘Two things – beauty and horror – are especially lasting.’
Rachel Cusk visits a marble bearing island in Greece’s Aegean sea.
On Sizewell C
William Atkins
‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’
William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.
Beyond Conversion Therapy
Kevin Childs
‘When I was growing up in his house, religion was his crutch, a justification for his behaviour.’
Kevin Childs on growing up queer in a Catholic household.
Joy and Insecurity in Port-au-Prince
Jason Allen-Paisant
‘The body is the first measurement of time: to reclaim time is to reclaim the body.’
Jason Allen-Paisant in Haiti.
My Mother Photographs Me in a Bath of Dead Squid
Lars Horn
‘She is not a conventionally “good” mother. But then, put like that, it sounds like a slow death sentence anyhow.’
Lars Horn on modeling for their artist mother.
Blue-Eyed Muggers
Alejandro Zambra
‘At every protest, when it was time to yell at the cops, I remembered my father and felt a turbulent emotion.’
Memoir by Alejandro Zambra on his father and his son.
Diary of a Journey to Senegal
Ishion Hutchinson
‘Sea night music: what is the music?’
Ishion Hutchinson in Senegal.
The Right to Intimacy
Raphaela Rosella & Nicole R. Fleetwood
‘Rosella and her co-creators curate an archive of pain, of endurance, of love and belonging, of alienation and disconnection.’
Nicole R. Fleetwood introduces the photography of Raphaela Rosella.
Hölzung
Muhammad Salah & Esther Kinsky
‘But what is an unencumbered gaze? And where does it begin to see?’
Esther Kinsky introduces a photoessay by Muhammad Salah.
Being-in-the-World
Geoff Dyer
‘Even experienced users get scared because it’s so far out.’
Geoff Dyer on ageing and understanding the self.
