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‘What I needed was to gaze into the surface, and, by gazing, to pass into another world, and breathe.’
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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
Andrew Brown writes for the Guardian and is the editor of their website on religious affairs. He also contributes to Prospect and the New Statesman and writes and presents Analysis programmes for BBC Radio 4. His books include Fishing in Utopia, The Darwin Wars and In the Beginning Was the Worm.
More about the author →‘She acted as if her own desires magnetized the world, and when you were close to her, she magnetized your moral compass too.’
‘I asked where the path was to the rapids. He looked at me as if all his suspicions had been confirmed.’
‘A sudden rustling in your chest. A premonition of understanding.’
Fiction by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda.
‘It is a nice thing when we say to each other, I am as happy with you as I am when I am alone.’
A story by Devon Geyelin.
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’
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