Q&A
‘If you don’t write it down, you’re less alert and less likely to notice and remember.’
A conversation with Lydia Davis
Staying in one’s lane
Nathalie Olah on Edna O’Brien’s choice to veer from her life experience with Girl
Nature writing?
An excerpt from Stanley Donwood and Robert Macfarlane’s latest creation, Ness: part-novella, part-prose- poem, part-mystery play.
Sporting news
On Cricket
Benjamin Markovits
A Single Book
Philippe Besson appraises The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Fiction
Nothing But Blue Sky
Kathleen MacMahon
Everything I read in 2019
Lizzie Stewart makes a list