‘He said are you a religious man do you kneel down / in forest groves and let yourself ask for help.’
He said it doesn’t look good
he said it looks bad in fact real bad
he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before
I quit counting them
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‘Most of the rooms in these photos have since been bulldozed or burned down.’
A photoessay by Bruno Fert, with an introduction by Nam Le. Shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards.
‘My first experience of “permanent” employment – a coveted job in publishing – was depressing for a number of reasons.’
Amber Husain on neoliberalism and workers’ rights.
‘The Wapichan are proud of their adoption of technology, and see no reason why it should make their land needs and entitlements any the less.’
An excerpt from A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World by Fred Pearce.
‘Maxwell is a privileged person in an unprivileged place. Rarer still is that she is a female charged with a sex crime.’
An essay by Chris Dennis from Granta 156: Interiors.
‘It’s laughable to suggest France’s present approach to policing is only a response to the violence and destruction wrought by the gilets jaunes’.
Chris Knapp on the systemic racism and violence of the French police.
‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’
‘I think I even used the phrase second honeymoon to the realtor, God forgive me, while Susan smoked a cigarette and read tourist brochures out in the car’.
‘But when I look again at this picture that was taken three years ago in London, after a fiction reading, my heart moves, and I'm nearly fooled into thinking that friendship is a permanent thing.’
‘June was summer nights and days, graduations, my wedding anniversary, the birthday of one of my children. June wasn't a month your father died in.’
‘Yell defiance until his chest hurt, at the hawks that circled and circled over the meadow.’
‘One morning, more golden than yellow, I went outside to our housefront and saw that the beggars had gone.‘
