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No Machine Could Do It
Eugene Lim
‘In the future we have to be as interesting to the AI as our pets are to us.’
Letter of Apology
Maria Reva
‘One can only argue with an intellectual like Konstantyn Illych if one speaks to him on his level.’
Radical Sufficiency
Jess Row
‘We have to reverse-engineer our genius so that we can appreciate the simple things.’
The Swallow’s Nest
John Boyne
Meet Gore Vidal in this excerpt from John Boyne’s novel A Ladder to the Sky.
The Woman Dies
Aoko Matsuda
‘The woman dies. She dies to provide a plot twist. She dies to develop the narrative. She dies for cathartic effect. She dies because no one could think of what else to do with her.’ Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton.
The Unspoken
David Hayden
Horror from David Hayden. ‘A shuddering, wordless voice rose in the distance, and another, and another; a chorus, a lament, which ended in a low grunt. There was a coda of sobbing. There was silence.’
Common Whipping
Naben Ruthnum
A young film composer turns to prostitution in a short story by Naben Ruthnum, set in a Rome of the early 1970s.
‘I Am Going to Speak to You about Anxiety’
Hernán Díaz
‘Her mother was still sitting on the sofa, stroking the left armrest while she talked.’
