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Rural Hours
Harriet Baker
‘Housekeeping, cleaning and tidying were domestic rituals; they had a performative, role-playing quality, but were also ways of feeling at home.’
An extract fromRural Hours by Harriet Baker.
Podcast | Declan Ryan
Declan Ryan
‘Some of these bigger characters, Muhammad Ali or Lennox Lewis, they can become these mythologic, mythological characters, or these godlike figures.’
Declan Ryan on contemporary boxing.
Introduction
Thomas Meaney
‘Everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless the players are trying to win.’
Thomas Meaney introduces the issue.
A Good Day
Caryl Churchill
‘I suddenly had one of those I can’t find words for it one of those moments of joy I suppose it is.’
Fiction by Caryl Churchill.
Real Tennis
Clare Bucknell
‘Real tennis players like to say that theirs is the only proper racket sport because the rest aren’t difficult enough.’
Clare Bucknell on a historical form of tennis.
Events Ashore
An-My Lê
‘Designed to face down conventional enemies, it hasn’t won a war since 1991.’
An-My Lê photographs the United States military, introduced by Granta.
Mucker Play
Nico Walker
‘When you said so loudly that you were the best, that you were worth the top dollar, then not just every game but every play became important.’
Nico Walker on the rise and fall of American football, from Jim Thorpe to Deion Sanders.
Round One
Benjamin Nugent
‘On the day the doctors extracted the eggs from her ovaries, he would have to go into a room in the hospital and produce.’
Fiction by Benjamin Nugent.
England’s Other Island
Owen Hatherley & Tereza Červeňová
‘A Victorian summer utopia perpetually falling into dereliction and desuetude.’
Owen Hatherley on the Isle of Wight, with photography by Tereza Červeňová.
Appendix
K Patrick
‘The appendix appeared. Half of it already distended, deep maroon, a twisted and flashing smile.’
Fiction by K Patrick.
Troubadour
Edward Salem
‘There were always too many white activists and upper-class European NGO workers, foreign queers and queer adjacents who were there for the anecdote, hoping to bed a native before their visa ended.’
Fiction by Edward Salem.
Bombed in Beirut
Myriam Boulos
‘What to do as a photographer in a war where even simple family portraits have become trophies?’
Myriam Boulos photographs displaced workers in Beirut.
