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I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be
Colin Grant
'Can the black author really write out of her or his colour? In writing about black characters can they ever escape race?' Colin Grant looks at the evolution of racial politics.
Jeremy Gavron | Notes on Craft
Jeremy Gavron
‘Is the conventional novel the closest model we have to our condition? Or simply the bedtime story that most comforts us?’
Kestrel
Cynan Jones
‘A kestrel is not domestic. The one time I tried affection the bird put his beak through my lip.’
Loggerheads
Rebecca Giggs
‘What idiom or instrument captures how the weather is felt by the animals, in their bodies, their nests and niches?’
Louise Bourgeois as I Knew Her
Jean Frémon
‘The portrait is built up of tiny strokes, one added upon another, like dashes of pencil.’ Translated from the French by Cole Swensen.
Nine Pints
Rose George
‘My blood is on its way to becoming something that even when given for free can be brokered and sold like ingots or wheat.’
On Cardi B
Rita Indiana
‘A crude, catchy hymn written by a woman who’s confessed to writing about what she likes, and that what she likes is “fighting bitches”.’
Slaughterhouse
Arnon Grunberg
‘I wonder whether there’s a real moral difference between killing an animal and killing a human being.’ Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
Sobre Cardi B
Rita Indiana
‘Es un himno crudo y catchy escrito por una mujer que ha confesado que escribe sobre lo que le gusta y que lo que le gusta es “fighting bitches”.’
Swifts
Adam Foulds
‘Swifts come closer than any other creature to living in the sky and having air and ceaseless movement as their home.’
The Last Shopkeepers of London
David Flusfeder
‘It became a kind of mission to find contemporaries of theirs that weren’t closing down, establishments that have continued to flourish, or at least endure.’
The Leech Barometer
Rebecca Giggs
‘To be consumed by leeches is to be vital, to be animate, though it is also to be reminded you are something else’s prey, and therefore porous and mortal.’
The Munduruku People Against Brazil
Tiffany Higgins
‘The Middle Tapajós Munduruku are not alone. Indigenous and traditional communities throughout the Tapajós River basin are facing increased degradation of their environment and the cultural sustenance practices that form the foundation of their lifeways.’
