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Jun 19, 201910 min read
Indelicate Flowers
JALEH BRAZELL - At the V&A, Dior's feminine silhouettes contrast with Quant's practical designs.
Jun 17, 20199 min read
Phantom Lap of Honour
CHRISTY EDWALL - The final words of the difficult, renowned poet Geoffrey Hill.
Jun 15, 20191 min read
When I Sing to Myself, Who Listens?
INA CARINO - no good people / want to live / in my house / we schedule ...
Jun 14, 201911 min read
An Essential Witness
Michel Houllebecq's new novel 'Serotonin' is as inflammatory as it is prescient.
Jun 12, 201910 min read
Solidarity in Numbers
Feminist movements in the age of neoliberalism.
Jun 10, 20197 min read
The Funeral
Let me tell you about the whole affair. I remember it well: it was the early summer of thirty-nine, when Tunis started to become...
Jun 10, 201910 min read
The Ghost that Haunts Our Press
From the days of Jack the Ripper, lessons in remaking a more sensitive press.
Jun 6, 201911 min read
Strange Truths
Once upon a time, at the mouth of the river Ganges, were to be found a race of men who lived by smell alone. Called the ‘Astomi’ by the...
Jun 6, 201914 min read
Art and Artifice
Amedeo Modigliani’s portrait of his friend, the painter Pierre-Edouard Baranowski, hangs in the de Young museum of San Francisco, but it...
May 31, 20191 min read
'from Letters to Liszetta'
Liszetta, now the dew is on the flowers, and the vulnerable metal is forgotten (bruléed, contorted past belief), the bodies. So all...
May 31, 20198 min read
Magical Thinking
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry Eds. Sarah Shinn and Rebecca Tamas 2019 ‘Spells are poems; poetry is spelling’, is the enchanting...
May 27, 201911 min read
Dead Air
2018 marked the five-year anniversary of author Doris Lessing’s death. This fact made it all the more surprising when, sat in my kitchen...
May 25, 20198 min read
Leftovers
Brennig Davies’ ‘Leftovers’ is the winning entry of the HT19 ORB fiction competition, adjudicated by award-winning author and journalist...
May 25, 201910 min read
Shortcuts and Monuments
In a recent edition of its weekend books supplement, the Guardian published a list of fifty recommended short stories. The saints were...
May 25, 201911 min read
From the Pulpit
JOSHUA ALLAN - The collected speeches of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
May 23, 20191 min read
Vitreous
The fact of transparency doesn’t mean You know what is happening. Consider The window, which wasn’t built to know That the closet doors...
May 20, 201910 min read
These Lovely Painful Things
Lanny Max Porter, Faber & Faber, 2019 If you’ve never lived in a small British town, you might be excused for imagining rather...
May 19, 20199 min read
Now You're Talking
Evolution Eileen Myles, Grove Press, 2018 In an interview between Eileen Myles and their ex Jill Soloway in front of a live audience, the...
May 17, 20192 min read
Darde Dell
The expression Darde Dell in Persian — literally ‘pain heart’ — means sitting with a friend and sharing your sorrows Oh, my friend let’s...
May 16, 20199 min read
Ghosts and Serpents
The Essex Serpent Sarah Perry, Serpent's Tail, 2016 Melmoth Sarah Perry, Serpent's Tail, 2018 Ghost Helen Grant, Fledgling Press, 2018...
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