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‘I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Amnion

Stephanie Sy-Quia

‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’

Fiction|The Online Edition

The Skylight

Penelope Mortimer

‘Her body poured away inside the too-tight cotton suit and only her bloodshot feet, almost purple in the torturing sandals, had any kind of substance.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Peak Spader

Ken Babstock

‘Love how unseen / we remain stood undressed in his field of vision.’

Poetry|The Online Edition

Three Poems

Shane McCrae

‘I wanted to and then / Remembered why I want to never’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

This Compost: Erotics of Rot

Elvia Wilk

‘Mushrooms sprout from the bathtub grout; disintegrating apples overflow from the trash can. Insects circle. The decomposition is lively and sensorially overwhelming.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Seeing Things

Emily LaBarge

‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Morgan Parker & Rachel Long

‘Everyone should be thinking about how they do their thing specifically, how they can use their influences combined with their own language, music and experience.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Raymond Antrobus

An interview with the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.

Art & Photography | The Online Edition

True Story

Toyin Ojih Odutola & Yaa Gyasi

‘What if our art had not been stolen, our people not enslaved? What if we imagined a good story, a righteous and just story, and then we worked to make it true?’