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…
Fiction | Dear Bogotá by Margarita García Robayo (trans. Carolina Orloff)
Margarita García Robayo (trans. Carolina Orloff) Dear Bogotá Margarita García Robayo was born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, but from…
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…
Poetry | Untitled Poetry by Samuel Vásquez (trans. Christina MacSweeney)
Samuel Vásquez (trans. Christina MacSweeney) Untitled Poetry My coherence isn’t well received. Coherence is a chosen not obligatory inheritance. They…
Interview | Pie Herring on Fortitude
Pie Herring on ‘Fortitude’ Pie Herring has had some highly successful showings in exhibitions including the ‘Young London Painters’ group…
Poetry | Silence by Yirama Castaño Güiza (trans. Christina MacSweeney)
Yirama Castaño Güiza (trans. Christina MacSweeney) Silence ‘Each photograph leaves a trail of silence’ Trika, Brazilian documentary photographer The rain…
Fiction | Iguana by Cristina Bendek (trans. Fionn Petch)
Cristina Bendek (trans. Fionn Petch) Iguana It was the year of the great blackout. There were noises on the roof.…
Poetry | The Rolling Head by Rómulo Bustos Aguirre (trans. Christina MacSweeney)
Rómulo Bustos Aguirre (trans. Christina MacSweeney) The Rolling Head to all the people in my country who have been…
Fiction | Unmoored by Rajiv Ramkhalawan
Rajiv Ramkhalawan Unmoored .……..You are headed to Trinidad for Carnival. .……..In the lead up to your flight, the island of…
Review | Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
‘Many commentators have described Small Things Like These, with some justification, as a parable about kindness, or redemption, or moral bravery. I prefer to read it as an investigation into the mechanics of complicity.’
David Butler reviews Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.
Fiction | Christmas Fire by Ferdinand Dennis
The following story is reproduced with permission from The Black and White Museum, a new collection of short stories by…
Review | Mohammad Ghazali: Persepolis: 2560-2580 by Celia Bailey
A review of Mohammad Ghazali: Persepolis: 2560-2580 by Celia Bailey If history is often a fiction ‘written by the victors’,…
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…
Review | Everlove by Maggie Butt
Carol DeVaughn A review of Everlove by Maggie Butt This heartfelt and moving collection opens with a sequence inspired by…
Fiction | Brickmakers by Selva Almada tr. Annie McDermott [Extract]
We are pleased to bring you an extract from the novel Brickmakers by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott, and…
Review | The Art of Fiction by Chloë Ashby
Chloë Ashby The Art of Fiction Second Place, Rachel Cusk, Faber, 2021, 224pp, £14.99 (hardcover) Painting Time, Maylis de Kerangal…
Review | A Fish in the Stream by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Katie da Cunha Lewin A Fish in the Stream The Years, Annie Ernaux, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018, 240pp, £12.99 (paperback) Happening,…
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…
Interview | Marion Messina on ‘Monstrous’ Novels by Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny Marion Messina on ‘Monstrous’ Novels Marion Messina is a high-profile French journalist who writes for Marianne and other…
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…
Poetry | Hyperlove by Naomi Morris
Naomi Morris Hyperlove The two pieces below are reproduced with permission from the closing stages of Hyperlove by Naomi Morris…
Poetry | I leave myself in the bull-filled room by Alice Merry
Alice Merry I leave myself in the bull-filled room i. …The bull fills the room……………………………………………………………..throws …its horns………….wide………………………………………………………….handfuls of…
Extract | Ricochets by Camille Emmanuelle tr. Nick Haughton
The text below is a translated extract from Ricochets by Camille Emmanuelle. Ricochets opens on 7 January 2015, as Camille accompanies…
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