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‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
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‘The slutty ingenuity of vegetables when it comes to desire and reproductive methods is a marvel.’
Rebecca May Johnson negotiates allotment culture.
‘Globalisation is incomplete: money can go anywhere, but laws cannot.’
Oliver Bullough on one of Britain’s most contested outposts: the British Virgin Islands.
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
A new story from Lydia Davis.
‘She began to count; it was easier this way, counting, because she would not have to remember how she felt.’
An excerpt from Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma.
‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
From Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
Graham Swift’s novels include Waterland, Shuttlecock and Last Orders, which won the Booker Prize in 1996. His most recent work is England and Other Stories (2014). He was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.
More about the author →‘The death of a father is, in most cases, an inevitable passage of life.’
‘Sometimes it haunts you like a knell, sometimes it's the motto for unimagined privilege.’
‘Then he led me out into the noise and the glare and the stink.’
‘Sorting out the world! He should have sorted out himself and his own jeopardized household.’
‘The fact remains that when I did ask questions, I got the same response: genuine, not stimulated, ignorance. No one seemed to have heard of him.’
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