1. Writing
Image of light coming in through a window,

Fiction | Signal by A. E. Macleod

Fiction

‘Not until later does he pose to himself the question: why does he imagine it is a woman bound in the basement and not a man?’

New fiction by A. E. Macleod.

Image of Marie Thompson and the cover of Bodies of Sound.

Essay | Low-quality Sonic Snapshots by Marie Thompson

Essays

‘Personal assistants are typically imagined to be female – it is a role that has historically been undertaken by women. Likewise, many of the smartphones’ various ‘assistants’ are gendered as female – they are part of a long historical lineage of robotic femininities.’

An extract by Marie Thompson from Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear.

Headshot of poet Caleb Parkin with the cover of his new book, Mingle.

Interview | Mingling with Caleb Parkin

Interviews

‘Hope can be quite a toxic construct. It’s often invested in preserving the present, but what version of the present are we hoping to continue?’

Tom Nutting speaks to poet and educator, Caleb Parkin.

Kit Young as Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare's Globe (c. Marc Brenner)

Review | All Is Not Well by Zadie Loft

Reviews

‘In the first half, Helen’s pursuit of and infatuation for Bertram seems sweet, comical and harmless; by the second, her actions have been shown to be what they always were: sexual harassment and assault.’

Zadie Loft reviews All’s Well That Ends Well.

Headshot of Eliza Clark with a cover of 'She's Always Hungry', her new collection of short stories.

Interview | Eliza Clark: Seven Questions

Interviews

‘There’s a great deal of horror to be found when desire is misaimed or curdles – our desires are often an expression of the systems of power we exist in.’

Eliza Clark interviewed by Zadie Loft.

Electro-vital particles drawn from an artificial forehead (pad of chamois leather) impressed by the hand, to match the plot of head injury in the short story by Louie Conway.

Fiction | Un by Louie Conway

Fiction

‘The baby has come to understand the world as reducible into categories, an indefinitely vast space populated by discrete objects with dedicated names and stable locations.’

Runner-up in the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024: Louie Conway’s ‘Un’.

Headshots of Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas with the cover of their book, Pleasure Gardens.

Review | I for I: Occupations that Blind by Zoe Valery

Reviews

‘The writing of Pleasure Gardens – and its reading – constitutes an act of resistance; a reclaiming of the digital narrative space that has been blacked out by the state and overwritten by its propaganda machine.’

Zoe Valery reviews ‘Pleasure Gardens’.

Review | Poor Art, Rich Rewards by Daisy Sainsbury

Reviews

‘Arte povera and its afterlife strike me as exemplary of the fate of counter-current movements that so quickly lose their revolutionary value and are subsumed into the institutions they originally set out to critique.’

Daisy Sainsbury reviews ‘Arte Povera’.

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