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Running Behind
Stephanie Wambugu
‘I missed a good portion of the outing and hoped the insult would come across.’
Stephanie Wambugu on chronic lateness.
Things on Places
Jeremy Atherton Lin
‘The festoonery interrupts the usual, how things are meant to be.’
Jeremy Atherton Lin on resenting Christmas.
Free Botox
Amber Husain
‘I sensed, if you can believe it, that I was being fobbed off.’
Amber Husain on refusing free Botox.
The Complex
Karan Mahajan
‘After much debate in this vein, the students concurred on the idea of the hunger strike – it would be very Gandhian.’
Fiction by Karan Mahajan.
Crews Control
Christian Lorentzen
‘In Crews’s portrait Freud comes to resemble one of his kookiest latter-day enemies: L. Ron Hubbard.’
Christian Lorentzen on Frederick Crews and the Freud Wars.
Podcast | Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas
‘I was not there to alleviate their suffering. I was there to listen to them.’
Christopher Bollas on psychoanalysis, its relationship to literature, and whether it can speak to the great crises of our time.
Day Care
Nora Lange
‘Day care meant sick baby. And sick baby meant she had to skip work to care for sick baby, and entertain sick baby with bad mom art.’
A short story by Nora Lange.
Every One Still Here
Liadan Ní Chuinn
‘Here he is, he thinks, the only fucker stupid enough to be here.’
Fiction by Liadan Ní Chuinn.
Year of the Rat
Harry Shukman
‘For a year, I was constantly frightened. It felt like there was an exclamation mark stamped onto my brain.’
Harry Shukman on his year undercover in British far right organisations.
Saraswati
Gurnaik Johal
‘Katrina and I had already agreed not to make eye contact during the woo-woo parts of the tour, so as not to break our cover as proper pilgrims.’
Fiction by Gurnaik Johal.
The Greatest Possible Good
Ben Brooks
‘In the photograph, the four Candlewicks are ankle-deep in rags of surf, spaced so far apart that they look like a band being shot for a magazine.’
Fiction by Ben Brooks.
