‘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.’
Who is Shalash the Iraqi? Kanan Makiya·7th September 2023Kanan Makiya introduces a mysterious figure. I first met ‘Shalash the Iraqi’ in Paris in the summer of...ReportageSummer 23
Forgotten Traces Iman Mersal·7th September 2023Iman Mersal on the mysteries of a marginalized, near-forgotten class of Egyptian literature. Love and Silence . ....ReportageSummer 23
Mud Noreen Masud·2nd May 2023If you stay on the Bristol city train travelling north-west till it runs out of track, and time,...ReportageSpring 23 | Debuts
None of the Above Travis Alabanza·21st June 2022I used not to be able to imagine myself in the future. When people asked what I wanted...ReportageSummer 22 | Debuts
Skin Hungry Sheena Patel·15th December 2021I see it as a door floating in outer space. There are some who are allowed access through...Autumn 21Reportage
Without Mourning Sita Balani·19th April 2021Many anthropologists suggest that mourning is the closest thing we can find to a universal, that death rites, though their forms differ, are practised by all peoples.ReportageSpring 21 | Emerging
Dear Cuz Elliot Barnes-Worrell·19th April 2021Our mums are sisters. They lived in the same council block together in Camberwell, and then moved to within two miles of each other…ReportageSpring 21 | Emerging
The Year of Reading Darkness Erika Hagelberg·18th January 2021In his 1994 book, published in English in 1997 as Literature or Life, Jorge Semprún recalls how, a...Number 58 | RediscoveringReportage
On Journeys Sophie Mackintosh·29th July 2020What do we say when a year knocks the air out of us? When we started to put...A letter from the editorNumber 57 | To Leave and to be Left BehindReportage
‘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
House is on Fire, Everything’s Paused Lys Morton·13th July 2020Near the end of March, during an endless weekday evening, I pace in my basement suite. In the...Number 56 | TransformationsReportage
Village Books, Calton Avenue, Dulwich, London Hazel Broadfoot·29th May 2020This series celebrates indie booksellers across the UK. In the first instalment, we travel to Dulwich. Even if...Reportage
