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Elizabeth Cook on the art of slow writing.

On the Island of the Black River

William Atkins visits the remote island of Sakhalin, following in the footsteps of Anton Chekhov.

Katherine Angel on Stromae and Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium.

‘As reality has grown more absurd, the job of satirists has grown harder.’

‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’

‘Alone in the silent dark, she traversed the mouth of the estuary in mile-long sweeps.’

‘To create is to let take over something which did not exist before and is therefore new.’

‘I, the pulse. I, the task. I, the ions of the documents extant. I, I, I as in, irrealidad, ingles, intruido.’