We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as ‘it’, although I can’t imagine that now.
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‘We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as “it”’
We knew almost nothing about her before she was born, not even her sex, so we must have referred to her as ‘it’, although I can’t imagine that now.
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Brian Hall is the author of The Impossible Country, on former Yugoslavia. His novels include The Saskiad and I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company. ‘I Am Here’ (Granta 55) is taken from Madeleine’s World, a ‘biography’ of his eldest daughter.
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‘He was our younger sister’s baby – her and her husband’s baby, I guess. They were young parents and excessively chill.’
Memoir by Emma Cline.
‘Why can’t the heart keep still and why isn’t the brain smooth to the touch.’
An excerpt from Ariana Harwicz’s novel Tender.
Kjersti A. Skomsvold on writing The Child, a book on motherhood and grief.
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken, an excerpt from The Child by Kjersti A. Skomsvold.
‘Do they dance for those creatures / whose unmade selves / come unbuttoning out of the dark?’
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