The senior fellow’s semi-shaven Adam’s apple
shifty on the frayed collar of his check shirt.


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‘There was really no point in going to a bomb shelter just because the siren sounded. Our hotel was unlikely to be a target.’
Lindsey Hilsum writes letters home from Ukraine.
‘The recipe is a text that can produce spattering because it was spattering before it was language.’
Rebecca May Johnson on recipes, repetition and intimacy.
‘To make a subject of the very same entity I am a part of, to be outside and within it.’
Thomas Duffield photographs his family.
‘There sat the joy of the shopping centre, what I thought of as its secret heart. A white rabbit.’
A story by Dizz Tate.
‘We were ourselves migrating birds; in a sense, refugees, displaced persons, without a home or a home town.’
Volodymyr Rafeyenko (tr. Sasha Dugdale) on the war in Ukraine.
Craig Raine’s Collected Poems 1978–1999 is published by Picador. His most recent book is a critical study, T. S. Eliot, published by Oxford University Press in the UK and the US. He is the editor of Areté, the arts tri-quarterly. ‘How Snow Falls’, published in Granta 100, is the title poem of his most recent collection.
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A poem by Peter Gizzi.
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A poem by Sandra Cisneros.
‘Lying is something I had become good at with practice.’
An excerpt from All Down Darkness Wide.
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