Essay | Rediscovering Irishness by Fran Mulhern
. . Fran Mulhern Rediscovering Irishness . . As many children of the Troubles in Northern Ireland would no doubt…
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…
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
Rowena Macdonald David Berman and My Stalker David Berman killed himself on 7 August 2019, aged 52. Since his…
Essay | The ‘Borderland’ – Ukrainian Identity, Past and Present by Yva Alexandrova
Yva Alexandrova The ‘Borderland’ – Ukrainian Identity, Past and Present It is Day 53 of the war in Ukraine and…
Essay | Stubborn Objects by Leon Craig
Leon Craig Stubborn Objects I saw four things in beautiful fashion journeying together. Dark were their tracks,…
Essay | The Filth and the Fury – England’s Litter Problem by Will Stone
Will Stone The Filth and the Fury – England’s Litter Problem In spring 2021, the national road network of…
Archive | Data for a Spanish Publisher by Dorothy Richardson
Dorothy Richardson Data for a Spanish Publisher Editor’s Note This essay was sent to me on January 3, 1951,…
Essay | Waterbaby by Rachel Spence
Rachel Spence Waterbaby After my mother died, I started to swim in the river Teme. Down by the weir at…
Extract | The Fragments of my Father by Sam Mills
Sam Mills The Fragments of my Father The following is text is reproduced with permission from The Fragments of my…
Essay | Audrey Magee | Does Interior Monologue have a National Identity?
Audrey Magee Does Interior Monologue have a National Identity? A new essay by Audrey Magee, author of The Undertaking, and The…
Essay | Picasso’s Secret Lover by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers Picasso’s Secret Lover Geneviève Laporte (1926-2012), mentioned in only three of the great many books on Picasso, was…
Essay | Lying Down with Paula Rego by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Lying Down with Paula Rego I do not assume the position she takes and still, she reaches into…
Essay | Poetry and Film in Colombia by Charles Olsen
Charles Olsen Poetry and Film in Colombia A New Zealander drawn to Colombian poetry films? Having interviewed filmmakers of Spain…
Essay | Colombia: a Nature Superpower by Zac Goldsmith
Zac Goldsmith Colombia: a Nature Superpower A few weeks before the all-important climate COP in Glasgow, I found myself travelling…
Essay | Painting the Rainforest by Damian Elwes
Damian Elwes, Amazon Cloud Forest, detail 1A, 1998. Acrylic on canvas, 178 x 762cm (overall size of floor painting 712…
Essay | Gabo Speaks by Jaime Abello Banfi and Orlando Oliveros (trans. Fionn Petch)
Jaime Abello Banfi and Orlando Oliveros (trans. Fionn Petch) Gabo Speaks Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014 and it is…
Essay | The Art of Lost Sleep by Venetia Welby
The following essay is reproduced with permission from the anthology Trauma – An anthology of writing about art and mental…
Essay | The Dreadful Cruise of David Foster Wallace by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers The Dreadful Cruise of David Foster Wallace Philip Roth, blurbing on the dust wrapper of Saul Bellow’s collected…
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