‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’
Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison Dan White·24th March 2022In the summer of 2014, author Dan White spoke separately to Toni Morrison and to Angela Davis about...InterviewsSpring 22·0 Comments·0·115 views
IC3 at 20 Five Dials·10th December 2021IC3 contributors reflect on the original publicationAutumn 21Interviews·0 Comments·0·88 views
‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’ Natasha Brown·23rd July 2021Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a concise, fragmentary novel that runs to 100 pages. Within these tight constraints she...InterviewsSummer 21·0 Comments·0·584 views
A kind of letting go Kayo Chingonyi·19th April 2021I’m very taken with the subjunctive in all things historical. What are the other possibilities and tributaries that branch off from what happened?InterviewsSpring 21·0 Comments·0·485 views
‘It’s best to understand the rules before you break them’ Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun·19th April 2021When people think of Indigenous art from the Pacific Northwest, it’s usually going to be something called formline, a technique that uses ovoid shapes, high contrast, and positive and negative space.InterviewsSpring 21·0 Comments·0·457 views
‘Modern medicine is brilliant. But we’re not good at keeping people from falling off the cliff in the first place.’ Dr Jeffrey Rediger·27th July 2020Why is it that we, as a society, don’t pay more attention to stories of recovery? Why do...InterviewsNumber 56 | TransformationsReportage·0 Comments·0·895 views
‘One of the challenges of the book was how is it possible to write about whiteness? To make it apparent, to show it, make it show itself’ Sarah Elaine Smith·13th July 2020In Sarah Elaine Smith’s new novel, Marilou is Everywhere, a young woman from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania, goes missing. Jude Vanderjohn...Interviews·0 Comments·0·324 views
‘We have an expectation that loss comes all at once.’ Five Dials·5th February 2020Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar is a love story: a tale of obsession and betrayal. But not between lovers:...FictionInterviewsNumber 54 | Debuts·0 Comments·0·3516 views
‘Another thing that fascinates me: one sentence can reveal so much about a person.’ Lydia Davis·21st January 2020This month I read Lydia Davis’s latest, Essays, before our arranged phone conversation. Davis’s writing voice is always...FictionInterviews·0 Comments·0·2105 views
‘Climate change is us.The sixth extinction is us. We are at the heart of all of these issues.’ Julian Hoffman·21st December 2019Julian Hoffman’s latest book, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, is a cry to see, to...InterviewsReportage·0 Comments·0·575 views
Speaking to Emilie Pine Emilie Pine·21st November 2019As an associate professor of modern drama, Emilie Pine is used to employing the disembodied writing style of...FictionInterviews·0 Comments·0·794 views
‘Older black women, who writes about that?’ Five Dials·5th July 2019Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction. Her other writing includes...FictionInterviewsNumber 50 | The Five Dials Award·0 Comments·0·1110 views