Our living archive: essays, poetry, fiction, and film gathered across issues. A continuous record of the work we publish, updated as new pieces find their home here.
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FICTION & PROSE
Łukasz Łotoszyński
A literary short story about an aged woman crocheting lace in her final years, as memories of her life surface stitch by stitch - a childhood in a Polish village, an early trauma in a wheat field, an arranged marriage, motherhood, and finally refuge in the company of other women.
OTHER
Ettore Castagnola
Before leaving a flat he had rented for nine years, a writer left three letters in a kitchen drawer for whoever came next. These are the drafts.
ARTWORK
Dalia Serrat
A printmaker spends a summer mixing a single red for five prints of rusted things. On colour as a decision you make once and then live with.
OPINION & ARGUMENT
Aurelia Stanek
Every word of a translated book was chosen by the translator, and yet their name is usually in small print on the title page. A translator of ten years argues it belongs on the front.
FILM & BOOK REVIEW
Mira Halloran
Clémence Aury's The Pantry Hours takes place over one year in one kitchen and never goes outside. In Tobias Wren's translation it is the quietest and most absorbing novel I have read this summer.
FICTION & PROSE
Joaquim Brandeiro
The last boat leaves at twenty past one. A night clerk, a woman with a cello case and a crossing that takes eleven minutes and somehow lasts all night.
ESSAY & CRITICISM
Ettore Castagnola
For twenty years a bookseller copied out the notes strangers left in the margins of second-hand books. On what those notes reveal, and why he never tried to find their authors.
ARTWORK
Dalia Serrat
Six linocuts cut over one winter in a shared allotment garden, and a note on why the cabbages got the most ink.
PHOTOGRAPHY & ARTWORKS
Noor Castellane
Two hundred frames of the most touched and least looked-at object in any home. A photographer on a series that turned into a diary.
OTHER
Leïla Ferrand
Boxes, deposits, the last night and the first morning. Eleven terms for the most common upheaval in a renter's life, defined by someone who has moved seven times in ten years.
FILM & BOOK REVIEW
Leïla Ferrand
Petra Valmont's Hollow Road is ninety-four minutes long and most of it takes place at a single bus stop. It is one of the most gripping films of the year.
TRAVEL & REPORTAGE
Sami Okafor-Reyes
The field belongs to a family who have not farmed for two generations. It is rented by a cooperative and picked by a crew who know it better than anyone. Three weeks of notes from a harvest on borrowed land.