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Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
It was discovered that gut bacteria were responsible
Kathryn Maris
‘this dream that might have been pleasant for an / 8-year-old could instead emerge as a nightmare for a woman / on the brink of menopause’
The Buzzard’s Egg
China Miéville
‘I can’t remember: did a young man destroy his miserable god, or did a god free its worshipper and take his blood and his bones?’
Dr J
Kalpana Narayanan
‘My father has his own language for everything. When I finished my MFA, I was a NINJA: No Income, No Job, No Assets.’
Lagos Must Prosper
Alexis Okeowo
21 million people, $91 billion GDP, an ambitious governor whose term is up: Alexis Okeowo on the megacity of Lagos
Item Girls
Kuzhali Manickavel
‘I have heard the item girls singing each to each. / I do not think they will sing to me.’
A Double-Income Family
Deepti Kapoor
When Mrs Mehra leaves Delhi she retires in one of ‘the vast new satellite townships on the eastern fringes of the metropolis’.
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’