Fiction | The Chinese Teacher by Jiaqi Kang
Jiaqi Kang The Chinese Teacher . . . …… had been teaching Chinese for as long as he’d lived in…
Fiction | A Kind of Magic by Róisín Lanigan
Róisín Lanigan A Kind of Magic . . The news told them every day that society was coming apart at…
Fiction | Helen! Helen! Helen! by Naomi Wood
Naomi Wood Helen! Helen! Helen! . . You know, no matter how hard Mission tries to eliminate it, depersonalisation is…
Poetry | To Die For by Audrey Molloy
Audrey Molloy To Die For . . The cockroach that stays in the fruit bowl, gorging itself, long after the…
Poetry | Two Poems by Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett Two Poems . . High Jump as Flow State By some accounts, I was an artist above…
Essay | Lost in the Supermarket by Hugh Foley
‘Characters in these books are not bewitched by the symbols of ‘consumerism’. They are well aware of the environmental costs, the exploitation, and of the error of thinking that their most profound desires might be satisfied by the products.’
Hugh Foley on supply chain fiction.
Essay | Arthur Moss and The Experimental Light Station by Horatio Morpurgo
Horatio Morpurgo Arthur Moss and The Experimental Light Station . . ‘I sometimes find myself in danger of going a-mothing…
Essay | Martin Amis: The Afterlife of Peregrine Prykke by Diana Barsham
Diana Barsham Martin Amis: The Afterlife of Peregrine Prykke . . It is spring 1974. At the old offices of…
Essay | The Novel Novel: On The Recent Resurgence of Verse Narrative by Aaron Poochigian
Aaron Poochigian The Novel Novel: On The Recent Resurgence of Verse Narrative . I first heard about Vikram Seth’s The…
Fiction | The Alien by Nicholas Hogg
Nicholas Hogg The Alien We were driving back to Sasebo when we saw the meteor, if that’s what it…
Poetry | To Know Grief by Alice Frecknall
Alice Frecknall To Know Grief . Open a book at random. Note how language glares back, a drawer of cutlery…
Review | Mother Tongue by Lucy Thynne
Lucy Thynne Mother Tongue Mother Tongue Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, Lauren Elkin, Chatto & Windus, 2023, 368 pp, £25.00 …
Poetry | Three Poems by Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland Three Poems . Barcelona . I was in Barcelona with two Irishmen (it’s a long story, and I’ve…
Fiction | Infinite Husbands by Claire Carroll
Claire Carroll Infinite Husbands I’ll let you in on a little secret: I have a lot of husbands. I…
Review | The Solitary Road by Guy Stagg
Guy Stagg The Solitary Road The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy, Picador, 2022, pp.400, £20 (hardcover) Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy, Picador, 2022,…
Review | Earthward Glances by Declan O’Driscoll
Declan O’Driscoll Earthward Glances . Hermit, Jade Angeles Fitton, Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023, pp.304, £18.99 (hardcover) Sea Bean, Sally Huband, Hutchinson…
Fiction | Brotherhood by Róisín Lanigan
Róisín Lanigan Brotherhood …. We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out,…
Fiction | The Dump by Phoebe Hurst
Phoebe Hurst The Dump … Before it all happened, there was nothing I wanted more than for it to happen.…
Poetry | Two Poems by Lucy Holme
Lucy Holme Two Poems Burrida de Raya There is inevitability to this imagery. A dull pang like the first…
Essay | Queer Spaces: Bloomsbury and the Bright Young Things by Nino Strachey
Nino Strachey Queer Spaces: Bloomsbury and the Bright Young Things On a crisp February night in 1925, Virginia Woolf…
Review | Let it Be by Patrick Cash
Patrick Cash Let it Be The New Life, Tom Crewe, Chatto & Windus, 2023, pp.384, £16.99 (hardcover) Love, Leda,…
Fiction | Mil-De-Wed by Annie Hayter
Annie Hayter Mil-De-Wed .. MIL-DE-WED-Annie-Hayter-audio-file Sir Stout A. Fleecing, ‘The Lesser Parishes of London’, Studies in Psychogeography, Vol. 72, No.…
Review | Based on a True Story by Declan O’Driscoll
Declan O’Driscoll Based on a True Story Kick the Latch, Kathryn Scanlan, Daunt Books, 2023, pp.96, £9.99 (paperback) A…
Essay | How Bob Dylan Plays by Frank Lawton
Frank Lawton How Bob Dylan Plays The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan, Simon & Schuster, 2022, pp.352, £35 (hardcover)…
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