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The Pain Cave

Lauren Groff

‘I would rather have died of hypothermia than let my siblings win.’

Lauren Groff on competitiveness.

Ray & Her Sisters

Sara Baume

‘Ray is the only sister to win a scholarship to boarding school.’

Sara Baume tells the story of her grandmother’s life.

My Eye

Suzanne Brøgger

‘You were Father’s and I was Mother’s.’

Memoir by Suzanne Brøgger, translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight.

Speaking Brother

Will Harris

‘I don’t have a brother; I’m an only child. But a few years ago I started writing poems in which a brother appears.’

Will Harris on why he created a brother.

Brother Poem

Will Harris

‘Our snapped-off shadows / made a simple shape / one within the other like / a folded napkin’

Poetry by Will Harris.

The Erl-King

Emma Cline

‘He was our younger sister’s baby – her and her husband’s baby, I guess. They were young parents and excessively chill.’

Memoir by Emma Cline.

They’re Going To Love You

Meg Howrey

‘He understands he is a container. For music, for movement.’

An excerpt from Meg Howrey’s novel, set in the world of professional ballet.

Two Poems

Lee Kathryn Hodge

‘Tell me now what it is that dies, gasping for another world in my hand.’

Two poems by Lee Kathryn Hodge.

In Conversation

Amina Cain & Patrick Cottrell

‘Without obsession, I don’t think I’d get anywhere.’

Two authors discuss atmosphere, obsession and going ‘too far’.

Middle Ground

Georgina Parfitt

‘At school, the primroses were coming out. Brighton was eleven, and every day now there was something new emerging.’

A story by Georgina Parfitt.

Living Rooms

Sam Johnson-Schlee

‘Before chintziness there was chintz, a fabric produced in India and imported to Europe by colonial traders.’

Sam Johnson-Schlee on what chintz means.

Ian Jack, Remembered

Sigrid Rausing

‘We will miss him.’

Sigrid Rausing remembers Ian Jack.

Notes on Craft

K Patrick

‘I don’t know anything except my own body. When writing poetry, that’s the only place I can start from.’

K Patrick on writing the queer body.

An Excerpt from sky doc

Joe Carrick-Varty

‘Once upon a time when suicide was a thought / folded inside a thought’

Poetry by Joe Carrick-Varty.