‘Later, she sat me in front of a large mirror …’
Em Cooper responds to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
‘Later, she sat me in front of a large mirror …’
Em Cooper responds to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
‘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.
‘The viewer has to pour their own unconscious into interpreting these images, make them their own, allow themselves to be encouraged by the existence of a void.’
‘I now see Melting Rainbows as a self-referential project to parse the universe which we inhabit.’
‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’
‘She turned to look at me, and, knowing I was being looked at, I smiled at her.’
Two unnamed women in a story by Cristina Rivera Garza.
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