English the Obscure
SAMUEL KING - Emma Smith on All Souls and Shakespeare
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Jul 14, 20221 min read
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is
MARIA SLEDMERE - 'Romance scams always make me cry
/ my front teeth chipped from the cinnamon cookie'
Jul 14, 20229 min read
A Brush With Death
JOHN MAIER - Maggi Hambling on art, smoking and death.
Jul 13, 20222 min read
The Ruins of Nostalgia 29
By Donna Stonecipher People were getting rid of their libraries, and they sighed with relief when they spoke of it, as though the weight...
Jul 13, 20228 min read
Vontinalys and Blueland
MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER - Considering the future of the EU Army.
Jun 25, 20225 min read
Forced Reflection
OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN - Runner-up of the Summer 2022 ORB Short Fiction Prize, judged by A K Blakemore.
Jun 21, 202210 min read
Sheer Loudness of Voice
CORA MacGREGOR - Fiction and the female philosopher.
Apr 26, 20228 min read
Lost in Place
ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.
Apr 15, 20228 min read
Rebel, Rebel
ADRIAN KREUTZ - Lamenting the loss of the student revolutionary.
Sep 26, 202110 min read
Bad Behaviour
ALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.
Sep 8, 20217 min read
Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Aug 28, 20215 min read
Creatures of Ritual
THOMAS CLARK - A reflection on our everyday moments of sanity
Aug 13, 202119 min read
I Don’t Know How the Mirror Broke
ION D. SÎRBU - a new translation of his short story 'I Don't Know How the Mirror Broke' by Andreea Iulia Scridon
Aug 5, 202111 min read
Border Crossings
ALEXANDRA PUGH - Both An Apartment and King Kong Theory stage various forms of border crossing...
May 30, 20218 min read
The Internet is Always On
LUCY THYNNE – Is it possible to write a good internet novel?
Apr 23, 20214 min read
A Conversational Art No.1, Caleb Azumah Nelson
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON - When writing Open Water, I was aware that this idea of truth kept emerging ...
Apr 21, 20218 min read
An Examined Life
PATRICK HAYES - A review of Blake Bailey's biography of the legendary American writer, Philip Roth.
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Learning to Pray
CIA MANGAT – 'swishing water from the bottle between my lips I witnessed feet like pale fish overlapping'
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