Fiction | The Bone Mole by Ed Cottrell
Ed Cottrell The Bone Mole ———There was a little bone mole for sale, a carving of a mole made of…
Poetry | Coot by Iain Twiddy
Iain Twiddy Coot It didn’t need to be a big ripple nudging its reed-nest for the overstep to plop into…
Interview | Ilana Manolson | Chance Encounters
Inspired by the fluidity and evolution of nature, the acclaimed Canadian American artist Ilana Manolson expresses both a personal and…
Extract | Flogging a Dead Clothes Horse by Thom Cuell
The following is an extract from We’ll Never Have Paris edited by Andrew Gallix (3:AM Magazine) — a new collection…
Review | Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides & Days of Awe by A. M. Homes
Jeffrey Eugenides’s latest short story collection is packed full of literary treats in case you haven’t read them when they…
Poetry | Ants on City Walls by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee Ants on City Walls . Think Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by…
Review | Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Out of the Woods, the first book by Luke Turner, begins with the breakdown of a five year relationship with…
Review | Phyllida Barlow at Royal Academy
I’ve collected driftwood from beaches for years. A particularly large piece hangs by the door to my house. Every time…
Extract | The Governesses by Anne Serre tr. Mark Hutchinson
Anne Serre (tr. Mark Hutchinson) The Governesses ‘One less,’ thought the elderly gentleman to himself as he folded up his…
Essay | I Go Away To Talk To Myself by Sinead O’Brien
Sinead O’Brien I Go Away To Talk To Myself A trip has the same quality a Friday has. Everything ahead.…
Review | Faust at the Royal Opera House
Faust, the epitome of grand French opera and Gonoud’s masterpiece returns to Covent Garden in this fifth revival of David…
Review | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 at The Photographers’ Gallery
Each room immerses the viewer in the artist’s expert documentation. We are encouraged to do more than just observe the…
Review | Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway
2036. In a ramshackle, backwater United States, Marine Corps vet Frank Dubois journeys from L.A. to Detroit, seeking redemption for…
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
Briony Willis WITCH WITCH, by Rebecca Tamás, Penned in the Margins, pp. 119, £9.99. (paperback) In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca…
Review | One Thing by Xanthi Barker and The Prick by Mazin Saleem
Xanthi Barker’s One Thing and Mazin Saleem’s The Prick are the second and third of the Open Pen Novelette series,…
Review | Counterpoint at the Stanley Spencer Gallery
Considered one of Britain’s most significant artists Stanley Spencer is famous for his singular vision, but Counterpoint sets out to demonstrate…
Review | Top Girls at the National Theatre
One of the great things about Caryl Churchill is her use of history to explore the present and anticipate the…
Essay | Residents in a World of Ideas: Thoughts on Cafés and Writing
Before a trip to Vienna a few weeks ago I asked a friend where I should go. ‘It’s all cafés…
Essay | What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? by Tom Jeffreys
Tom Jeffreys “What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?” Some notes on the art of Yelena Popova, Joanna Rajkowska,…
Review | Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
Birthday (1942) hangs opposite the entrance to the first room. Tanning stands proud yet forlorn, shirt as open as the…
Feature | Inside Dennis Severs’ House
I arrive outside the black wooden door of Dennis Severs’ House, knock gently on the door, and wait under the…
Archive | Leaving School—XI by Ann Quin
The following piece by the post-war experimental writer Ann Quin (1936-1973) was originally published in the July 1966 issue of…
Review | The Realm of the Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines by Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes, The Realm of Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines, Signal Books, November 2019, pp. 288, £12.99 The Realm of…
News | The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019
Last night the winners of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses were announced, with this year’s announcement signalling…
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