Fiction | Like Brando in the Opening Scene of Last Tango in Paris by Kent Kosack
Fiction | Pity by Isaac Nowell
Fiction | Gleanings by Jack Sheehan
Review | Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life by Liam Peress
Essay | Félix Fénéon and Fin de Siécle Micro-fiction by Patrick McGuinness
Fiction | Paris est magique by Wendy Erskine
News | Short Story Prize 2022: Sarah Moore Fitzgerald wins first place for her story ‘Matamoros, July 1846’
Review | The Meaning of Sex by Stuart Walton
Essay | ‘Force, hatred, history’: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100 by Daniel Mulhall
Poetry | Turkish Delight by Isabelle Baafi
Poetry | Care for me like you would a leg injury by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Poetry | The Bond by André Naffis-Sahely
Fiction | The Crying Suite by David Hering
Review | Arab Music Days in Berlin, an Omphalos of Being at the Pierre Boulez Saal
In Memoriam: Grey Gowrie
Fiction | How Are Things With You? by William Bedford
Fiction | Asphyxia by Violette Leduc
My mother never gave me her hand… She always helped me on and off pavements by pinching my frock or coat very lightly at the spot where the armhole provides a grip. It humiliated me. I felt I was inside the body of an old horse with my carter dragging me along by one ear… One afternoon, as a gleaming carriage sped past, splattering the leaden summer with its reflections, I pushed the hand away right in the middle of the road. She pinched the cloth […]
Essay | Reflections on Orwell’s Coming Up for Air by Patrick Maxwell
“Call it peace, if you like. But when I say peace I don’t mean absence of war, I mean peace, a feeling in your guts. And it’s gone for ever if the rubber-truncheon boys get hold of us.” What moves us about this passage? It is not particularly difficult to know which literary world we are in, which part of history we are being exposed to, and even which author is speaking […]
Review | Young Rembrandt & Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age
The similarities between the life paths of the 17th century Dutch painters Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) and Rembrandt (1606-1669) are intriguing. Both grew up in small town Holland, both were apprenticed to local painters at an early age, both moved to Amsterdam to work with a master, both returned to their home towns to perfect their own style, both ended their lives in Amsterdam to which each had returned as their careers began to burgeon […]
Interview | Elizabeth Eade at HIX ART
HIX ART is currently presenting I know you are but what am I, the first major solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Elizabeth Eade. In this new series of installations, Eade playfully and powerfully continues her exploration of a range of social and political issues. In 2018, Eade won the celebrated HIX Award, judged by the likes of Tracey Emin and Gavin Turk, with her piece Die Liste — a ten-metre-long handwritten list documenting the deaths […]
Interview | Atiq Rahimi on dreams, minimalism and the female nude
‘Depicting the body is a very political act in my culture, no matter what you do with it; even if it’s abstract. Nudity is a political act. Unveiling the body is engaging with the essential in life, the universal. The body is fundamentally the same regardless of gender. Some political regimes divide the genders along the lines of insignificant bodily differences. Politics often create a contradiction between the sexes when, in actual fact, it’s just a difference, nothing else.’ […]
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