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The Moving Target of Being
Suzanne Scanlon
‘When I was in the hospital, the belief in “recovered memories” was at its peak.’
Suzanne Scanlon on the shifting parameters of illness.
A Place that Belongs to Us
Daniel Trilling
‘The notes belong to you, said the guards, but the paper you wrote them on is ours.’
Fragmentary non-fiction by Daniel Trilling.
Baghdadland
Aline Deschamps & Rattawut Lapcharoensap
‘The photographs do not feel like a documentary record of kids in theme parks so much as a startling lyric glimpse of some inner vision that they all might be having of one.’
Rattawut Lapcharoensap introduces the photography of Aline Deschamps.
Fatty
Dizz Tate
‘There sat the joy of the shopping centre, what I thought of as its secret heart. A white rabbit.’
A short story by Dizz Tate.
But the Heart in a Sense Is Far from Me Floating Out There
Peter Gizzi
‘It’s right to extract bone from the afterlife’
A poem by Peter Gizzi.
Fateha
Sana Valiulina
‘While Fateha is fleeing westward with her children, another woman is trying to save herself from the city on the shore of the Sea of Azov.’
Memoir by Sana Valiulina, translated by Polly Gannon.
Signs of an Approaching War
Volodymyr Rafeyenko
‘We were ourselves migrating birds; in a sense, refugees, displaced persons, without a home or a home town.’
Volodymyr Rafeyenko on the war on Ukraine, translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Having Recently Escaped from the Maws of a Deathly Life, I Am Ready to Begin the Year Anew
Sandra Cisneros
‘Life is not worth living / without salami.’
A poem by Sandra Cisneros.
Fault Lines
Jane Delury
‘My mother is only seventy, but she has the bones of a ninety-year-old, the marrow like lace.’
A story by Jane Delury.
A Wolf in the Forest Wants
Sarah Moss
‘I biked to the hospital anyway, because it didn’t occur to me to think of an alternative form of transport.’
Sarah Moss on her admission to hospital.
