On the road again: Sara Taylor on remaking the US road novel
The year I was born, my grandparents moved to Nova Scotia. The year my younger sister was born they moved to Florida. I’ve been assured that none of these events are related. We lived in Virginia, halfway between the two. Once a year or so my parents would load my brother and sister and I […]
Once a Bookseller, Always a Bookseller: Max Porter on seeing his book on the shelves
For many years I was a bookseller. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. Now I work as an editor, and I’ve written a book, but I still think like a bookseller and I hope I always will. The greatest thrill for me this year has been going into bookshops and seeing little handwritten notes, […]
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: In Between Stations (Guernica Magazine)
Between Norwich and Colchester my phone sleeps signalless in my lap. In this half of the journey, I notice the way the light swoops over stretches of water and punches through twisted trees. The British love to complain about their trains, but I am grateful for the Abelio Greater East Anglia Norwich to London route. […]
Emma Sky joins thousands in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the life of Jo Cox
Today, thousands of friends and family of Jo Cox gathered in Trafalgar Square to celebrate her life. I had never met Jo but she was a close friend of a number of my friends and we had corresponded over email on how to stop the bombing in Syria and to deliver humanitarian aid to the […]
Julia Gregson on Muhammad Ali
What was it like to hang out with Muhammad Ali for four days in the mid-1970s? And what did the Champ think about women? Julia Gregson interviewed Muhammad Ali when she was 28. She remembers the man – and some of his more controversial views. Read the full article here.
Alan Moore celebrates Chris Petit’s The Psalm Killer – a nerve-shredding Irish noir
In film and writing, noir – not a colour but a vital absence of the same – is nonetheless a necessary hue. The stark radiance of a composition becomes evident only when it lacks distractions of the spectrum and its gaudy splashes of attached sensation, just as a morally abysmal ground makes any human light […]
Dangerous Fictions
The writer Mohammed Hanif probes for truth in Pakistan.
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
Curious Incident author Mark Haddon has turned to short stories – the results are gripping
Mark Haddon: ‘I’ve read too many beige short stories in my life’
The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime explains how, in order to find his voice as a short story writer, he had to escape the legacy of Chekhov and Carver
Hiding in plain sight – why I spent a lifetime chasing Prince by Matt Thorne
Following the death of the enigmatic pop idol, Matt Thorne explains his lifelong devotion to Prince.