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Notes on Craft

Sara Freeman

Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.

Notes on Craft

Alex Hyde

‘The scrubbing of floors or rugs. People down on their knees, “tamping” the stain.’ Alex Hyde on the everyday gestures that make a life.

Best Book of 2019: A Month in Siena

Emmanuel Iduma

‘In art he finds the language with which to exchange mourning for some measure of equanimity.’

Emmanuel Iduma’s best book of 2019.

Best Book of 1988: Camera

Juliet Jacques

Juliet Jacques on her best book of 1988.

Double Date

Sasha Fletcher

‘Off in the distance, the landlords laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed!’

An excerpt from the new novel by Sasha Fletcher.

Travelling Secretary

Emmanuel Iduma

‘My life unfolded within the net effect of my father’s choices.’

Memoir by Emmanuel Iduma.

16 Sheets from LOG

Roni Horn

Artwork from Roni Horn’s long-term project on Iceland.

Confluences

Kate Harris

‘The creek was fringed with tall grass and clear as breath.’

Kate Harris in the Taku River Tlingit First Nation.

I Know What Spring Is Like: Clarice, Crônicas and Corcovado

Sinéad Gleeson

‘A state of grace, Lispector writes, should be short-lived, episodic.’

Sinéad Gleeson on Clarice Lispector’s Brazil.

Replace Me

Amber Husain

On neoliberalism’s psychic toll.

Naomi

Sarah Hall

‘When I was eight, my mother died and Naomi arrived.’

An excerpt from Burntcoat by Sarah Hall.

Two Poems

Edmund Hardy

‘Feeling Real’ and ‘I Miss Myself / Shared Oranges’ by poet and filmmaker Edmund Hardy.

Two Poems

Radna Fabias

‘we welcome the applicant.’ Two poems by Radna Fabias translated by David Colmer.

Jean Betrays Memory

David Hayden

‘Beauty was a state of being blamed’

New fiction by David Hayden.