Fiction|The Online Edition

Marie NDiaye

‘I stagger from the shock. I feel the corners of my mouth turning down. My jaw begins to tremble. Yes, yes, yes, I say to myself, get ahold of yourself.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Kseniya Melnik

‘I was already suspicious of you before you were even born. You were Mama’s then, eating her up from the inside like a little cancer. She became yellow. She lost chunkfuls of hair.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Kelly Magee

‘Mothers: our first source of love, our first heartbreak.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘Fingers twirl / composite stems whose colour / twist rock-candies, snake-ladders / precious yellow, less-rare green.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Kelly Magee

‘Can bad mothers be taught to be good? Or maybe, can we be incentivized to bond? To love?’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Marian Ryan

‘I will lay down what I want, and I will get it, and prove I am not the kind of woman who is controlled by a man.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Linda H. Davis

‘I had become the kind of parent I never wanted to be.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Mika Taylor

‘She is the first dolphin mother, Peter her boy genius.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

‘Syllables are excised by / X-Acto, fed into a shredder / for good measure.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Carmen Maria Machado

Love and pain, love and loss: the two are twinned. To know love is to...

Fiction|The Online Edition

Rachel B. Glaser & John Maradik

‘When she reached her hand into his underwear, again she felt the turtle.’

Five Things Right Now|The Online Edition

Eliza Robertson

‘For me, astrology’s opened this new language and field of understanding.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Ka Bradley

‘Nathan: there’s something in the basement. In the locked rooms I was telling you about.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

‘Maybe anyone becomes unbearable after enough time in the honeymoon suite.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s story of eternity á deux.

Fiction|The Online Edition

Diane Williams

‘Two women appeared embracing two of a kind – that is each woman held onto a globular lamp base that had luster.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Lily Dunn

Lily Dunn on her father’s losing battle with alcoholism.

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Pwaangulongii Dauod

Mark Gevisser and Pwaangulongii Dauod discuss Africa’s LGBTI communities, an experience of violent sexual repression, and Afro-Modernity.

Fiction|The Online Edition

Diane Williams

‘I knew who she was well enough, by then – a competent woman in earnest who didn’t like me.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Jane Yeh

‘Her / Secrets play on continuous loop, // Like a B-movie.’

Five Things Right Now|The Online Edition

Renee Gladman

‘I go here to slow everything down, to study shadow in a space of dreaming.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Yiyun Li

‘If you were like me, you would know the obsession of the compulsive reader: every street sign; every bottle label’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Mark Slouka

‘Every marriage is forged differently; some crack at a touch, others endure beyond belief, still others are tempered by events and time.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

‘I find myself lately spending so much time trying to preserve whatever is left of my pre-internet brain.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Yoko Tawada

‘I was perfectly content with my new life until I began to write my autobiography.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Astrid Alben

Astrid Alben discusses her work, the interdisciplinary journal Pars, and developing a poetic alter ego.

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett on the Hawe family murder-suicide, and what the Irish media’s coverage tells us about the nation’s prejudices.

Fiction|The Online Edition

Camilla Grudova

‘I felt intolerably miserable. There were posters everywhere reminding me I was Manless’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Joost Zwagerman

‘This is how I became Winnie’s clandestine, outcast and utterly powerless guardian angel.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Christy Edwall

‘In the black fog of her grief, Anna Kraft received an invitation.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Eliza Robertson

‘She feels the wildness enter her and keeps her eyes shut.’ New fiction from Eliza Robertson.

Poetry|The Online Edition

Amit Majmudar

‘Never laid a snare for nothin. / Never caught a bullfrog. Broke / my slingshot wishbone, wishin. / Never had a smoke.’ New poetry from Amit Majmudar.

Five Things Right Now|The Online Edition

Melissa Febos

‘I don’t care if anyone is watching and that’s the point.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Amelia Gray

‘The bag was full of fresh dogshit. The note attached read For my children and theirs.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Oliverio Coelho & Kit Maude

‘I know what you're thinking: I'm indulging in cut-price philosophy to avoid the question’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Renee Gladman

‘Things were starting to line up: history was speaking, which hardly ever happened to me.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Garrett Caples

‘light plays on the planet / long enough to tell time’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Oliverio Coelho

‘In the not-too-distant future, all men would be on their feet, reduced to wearing out their soles on the streets.’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Silvina Ocampo

‘Around the kerosene lamp fell slow drops of dead butterflies.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Sylvia Legris

‘Narcotic, / unworldly, a toxic doctrine / of undivine retribution.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Jaan Kaplinski

‘Things didn’t remember their names and I have begun to forget them’

Fiction|The Online Edition

Sophie Mackintosh

‘There was a certain kind of teenage girl who would relish not just the killing, but the trophy taking, choosing a tooth and using the pliers herself.’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Andrea Stuart

‘I can easily recall my first brush with porn’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Xiaolu Guo

‘I had lost my native country, now I was going to lose a continent.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Paula Bohince & Jane Mead

‘It seemed that recording her sickness was cold and vulgar, that if ever I should be a participant and not an observer, this was the time.’

In Conversation|The Online Edition

Emma Jane Unsworth & Rachel B. Glaser

‘Fiction is like those amazing robots that build other robots.’

First Sentence|The Online Edition

Mika Taylor

‘I didn’t want reality to overwrite the story that was forming in my head.’