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May 28, 20221 min read
Exhibition
PHILIP HANCOCK - 'An assortment of sticks / sprouts from a five litre tin / on the work bench.'
May 6, 20228 min read
Citizens Of Vanished Nations
CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.
May 6, 20226 min read
Global Dispatches: Spring 2022
GLOBAL DISPATCHES - Notes from Myanmar, Colombia, Spain, and Germany.
May 4, 20227 min read
The Power of the Ordinary
SEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.
May 2, 20221 min read
Border
KATE McLOUGHLIN - 'At midnight, at the border, the train, / Which had roared through birch forests, / Stopped.'
Apr 30, 20226 min read
A Room of My Own
MIA WU - Self-discovery in a Shanghai Covid-19 state quarantine facility.
Apr 26, 20228 min read
Lost in Place
ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.
Apr 22, 202210 min read
The Violence of Language
PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.
Apr 20, 20221 min read
At the Cutty Sark
MAYA C POPA - 'The clipper without /
sail or shroud, // a shell through which /
the city gleamed'
Apr 18, 20229 min read
Material World
ELEANOR HALLESY - Helen Thompson on how we got here and how we get to net zero.
Apr 15, 20228 min read
Rebel, Rebel
ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.
Apr 13, 20227 min read
The Anomie Within Us
NICHOLAS CLARK - The shifting sands of Singaporean statecraft.
Apr 10, 20229 min read
Punk and Postvernacular
ADAM POSSENER - A new face for Yiddish.
Apr 9, 20228 min read
Heavy Weather
ROBERT MERGES - Inflation in the Anthropocene.
Apr 5, 20226 min read
The View From Here
ISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?
Apr 2, 20229 min read
Joyceware
KATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.
Mar 29, 20222 min read
Expectedly, Unexpectedly
HEIDI WILLIAMSON - 'Unexpectedly there were complications. / Expectedly the doctors said to abort.'
Mar 28, 202210 min read
In Search of Lost Time
LIAM JOHNSTON – Authentic accounts of class difference often require a complex effort to remember what has been deliberately left behind.
Feb 4, 20228 min read
A Little Language, under which is Love
KATE ÖZEL — Runner-up of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.
Feb 2, 20225 min read
The Summer of the Floating Fish
CAITLIN WILSON - Winner of the Autumn 2021 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by Bart van Es.
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