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Mafootoo
Brian S. Heap
‘She looks at her husband of fifty years, trussed up like a bewildered Christmas tree, all trailing streamers and twinkling lights, undecided about whether he is quick or dead.’
When A Woman Renounces Motherhood
Innocent Chizaram Ilo
Innocent Chizaram Ilo’s ‘When a Woman Renounces Motherhood’ is the 2020 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize regional winner from Africa.
On Alice Coltrane
Ashley Kahn
‘I habitually compartmentalize, until an artist so singular and unrooted reminds me to reboot my thinking.’
Carrot Bread
Annabel Banks
‘A short story is a loose-knit sweater, a trawler’s net, where the spaces and holes are inseparable from the whole.’
Fracture
Andrés Neuman
‘Sometimes, in the midst of one of our arguments, he would say to me sadly, I understand you more if I understand less.’
Plague Diary: April
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘Pictures from some cities in Latin America: the burning in front of the family home of the dead who are not collected by the state.’
Introduction
Rana Dasgupta
‘We cherish communion, exchange and intercourse, of course, but also distance, seclusion and defence. Talk of membranes, therefore, is never entirely literal.’
Tissue
Tishani Doshi
‘Even if you could walk through the corridors / of your body, you would not know which rooms / to enter, which were full of stone.’
Newts
Anita Roy
‘Under a microscope, its skin looks lacy and netted, and it is this very porousness that makes these creatures so vulnerable.’
Hold Your Fire
Chloe Wilson
‘While waiting for his faecal transplant, my husband wasn’t as fun as he used to be.’
Laxmi
Anita Khemka & Rana Dasgupta
‘Anita’s documentation of Laxmi developed into what has become a lifelong friendship bound by photography.’
Rana Dasgupta introduces the photography of Anita Khemka.
