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Clare Fisher Counting the Bodies 1. The Writing Body I believed, for the longest time, that my writing and…

Essay | Heartbreakers by Christiana Spens [Extract]

Christiana Spens Heartbreakers The following is an excerpt from ‘The Fear’, available for pre-order with Repeater Books now. After I graduated,…

Essay | Wolf’s Hall by Joanne Paul

Joanne Paul Wolf’s Hall In November 1508, a haberdasher named Thomas Sunnyff walked along Candlewick Street in central London. Passers-by…

Essay | Kingsley and the Women by Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Forbes Kingsley and the Women Last year marked the centenary of the birth of Kingsley Amis, the finest British…

Essay | Blackgirl on Mars by Lesley-Ann Brown [Extract]

Lesley-Ann Brown Blackgirl on Mars I decided to go to plant school. It’s not a physical school with humans as…

Essay | Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being by Raymond Shorthouse

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Raymond Shorthouse Poetic Rhythm and the Sonority of Being In contemporary philosophical debate there is increasing interest in the role…

Essay | Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

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Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching was shown at Spike Island, Bristol, between…

Essay | You Must Change Your Life: Making Room For Wonder by Maya Popa

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Maya C. Popa You Must Change Your Life: Making Room for Wonder Among the daily wonders we experience as human…

Essay | A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux [Extract]

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Annie Ernaux (trans. Alison L. Strayer) A Girl’s Story ‘I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who I…

Essay | A New Season by Tara McEvoy

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Tara McEvoy A New Season My first training session with the East Belfast ladies Gaelic football team was on July…

Essay | A North London Light by Christiana Spens

Christiana Spens A North London Light Joshua Press works from home. More specifically, he paints from home, and in a…

Essay | Death and Forgetting by Kate Tsurkan

Kate Tsurkan Death and Forgetting J.H. Rosny aîné, a founding author of French science fiction — whose stories featured sinister,…

Essay | The Violence of Myth by Daisy Dunn

Daisy Dunn The Violence of Myth I grew up reading the Greek myths. Every birthday or Christmas another compilation would…

Essay | Sting in the North? by Josh Mcloughlin

Josh Mcloughlin Sting in the North? ‘There is […] a real difference between North and South’, George Orwell said in…

Essay | Rediscovering Irishness by Fran Mulhern

Fran Mulhern Rediscovering Irishness As many children of the Troubles in Northern Ireland would no doubt agree, the concept of…

Essay | Poetry Games by Nick Murray

Nick Murray Poetry Games Game, in comparison to its considerably older and more established sibling Film, is still a mere…

Essay | Seeing Green with Megan Baker by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Seeing Green with Megan Baker Between the house and the man, stood a woman. Dark brown hair coiled…

Essay | A Good Weapon: Hemingway’s Men at War by Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers A Good Weapon: Hemingway’s Men at War Ernest Hemingway’s 1,100-page military anthology Men at War (1942)— published in…

Essay | Taking a Long Look: The Second Sex by Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick Taking a Long Look: The Second Sex Deep into my own middle age, I reread The Second…

Essay | Not Cooking in Rome by Rebecca May Johnson

Rebecca May Johnson Not Cooking in Rome I did not cook much and did not want to cook much…

Essay | In the Pink with Nancy Cadogan by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou In the Pink with Nancy Cadogan The camellia remained uncrumpled the long journey home. Every evening, the…

Essay | David Berman and My Stalker by Rowena Macdonald