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Slime
Susanne Wedlich
‘We are all creatures of slime, but some of us are more creative than others’.
An excerpt from the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Slime.
How to Be a Revolutionary
CA Davids
‘How could anything be yours, intimately yours, and not belong to you at all?’
An excerpt from the new novel by CA Davids.
Notes on Craft
Scholastique Mukasonga
‘It was the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis that made me a writer.’
Three Poems
Fiona Benson
‘She offered herself in return / for her decimated town.’
‘Oarsman on the Drowning of Nisus’s Daughter Scylla’, ‘Pasiphaë on Her Granddaughter, Apemosyne’ and ‘The Chimp House’ by Fiona Benson.
Invisible Loyalty
Jan Morris
An essay on Welsh identity from Allegorizings, the final book from the late Jan Morris.
The Translator I Never Wanted to Be
Mariam Rahmani
‘Translation had always struck me as unsexy. Or perhaps something more insidious than that.’
On translating In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali.
Notes on Craft
Lucie Elven
‘I make a list of accidents – sentences I’ve misread with my misreading left in them.’
It Came from out of the Closet
Andrew McMillan
‘I had to say I was. I had to take the fear I’d held in my stomach for years, and bring it out into the light.’ An essay on anxiety, coming out, and the Goosebumps series.
A Hunger
Fran Lock
‘Both has a way of being neither.’
An essay by Fran Lock from the anthology Queer Life, Queer Love.
