‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’
Two Continents Back to Back Charlotte Williams·7th September 2023In a world that so often pushes for monochromatic, binary categorization, Charlotte Williams’ memoir, Sugar and Slate, asks...InterviewsSummer 23
Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It? Miss Major·2nd May 2023For more than fifty years, Miss Major has played the crucial role of surrogate mother and grandmother to...InterviewsSpring 23 | Debuts
‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’ Missouri Williams·21st June 2022The first thing you’ll need to know about Missouri Williams’ The Doloriad is that an environmental disaster has...InterviewsSummer 22 | Debuts
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 | Mementos
IC3 at 20 Five Dials·10th December 2021IC3 contributors reflect on the original publicationAutumn 21Interviews
‘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
‘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 | Emerging
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 | Emerging
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘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