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Amateur Dramatics
Jonathan Lee
‘I heard the news from a nurse with a piece of tinsel tied around her waist: my father had become a hypochondriac.’
American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit
Noor Naga
‘Question: is romance just a father who never carried you to bed carrying you, at last, to bed?’
American Journal
Christine Montalbetti
‘All those appetizing vessels exposed and available, O how delightfully vulnerable they are, it brings a tear to the eye.’
American Objects
Lucy Ives
‘My eyes were way too large. They appeared, if this is possible, independently scandalized.’
American Subsidiary
William Pierce
‘He was typing up another proposal for robots that would replace human workers in an engine factory.’
Amma
Sindya Bhanoo
‘She appeals to the fisherman, the rickshaw driver, the bricklayer. Her devotees are of all types’
An Adult Taste
Kang Young-sook
‘The blood that flowed down the drain was a deep dark red, but it appeared clean, even refreshing.’
A new story by Kang Young-sook, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong.
An Amateur Spy In Arabia
Norman Lewis
‘In the 1930s I wanted to travel and I wanted to write. In 1935, I published my first book—about a journey to Spain’.
An As-Yet-Undiscovered Land Mammal
Mariana Leky
An excerpt from Mariana Leky’s What You Can See From Here.
An English Opening
Maxim Osipov
‘In a bad position, any move is worthless.’
New fiction by Maxim Osipov, translated from the Russian by Alex Fleming.
An Evening of Martyrdom
Golnoosh Nour
New fiction from Golnoosh Nour’s debut collection about the lives of young, queer Iranians.
