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On Boredom
Nuar Alsadir
‘Boredom is a complicated stink of an emotion, one that is far more layered than we presume.’
Nuar Alsadir on boredom.
since feeling is first
Nuar Alsadir
‘The way we manage erotic knowledge is connected to our handling of unwanted truths’
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
I Will Never See the World Again
Ahmet Altan
‘I was in a cage because a man had eaten an apple.’ Translated from the Turkish by Yasemin Çongar.
Cheating
Ahmet Altan
‘I get into the police car with four officers from the Anti-Terrorism Branch. They are taking me to the prison.’
Boarding Pass
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
‘But the crime did exist; it was Cuba itself.’
Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal
Al Alvarez
‘The water was chilly and sweet – cold enough to stay with me and make me shiver while I did some shopping later.’
Tahmima Anam | My Writing Playlist
Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam shares a playlist of songs to write to.
Benjamin Anastas | Portrait of My Father
Benjamin Anastas
‘For years when I was growing up, I passed underneath this double-nude every time I climbed up or down the stairs in my father’s house.’
When Denmark Criminalised Kindness
Lisbeth Zornig Andersen
‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’
The Editor’s Chair: On Christine Montalbetti
Alex Andriesse
‘For Montalbetti to have achieved this syntactic ease in French is a feat. For the translator to reproduce it in English requires the capacities of a medium.’
On Vulnerability
Katherine Angel
‘Is anyone an authority on themselves, whether on their sexuality or anything else?’
An excerpt from Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again.