‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’
Plainly Repulsive Lara Williams·3rd April 2019I used to work with a girl who told me there was a finite amount of time that...Number 49 | Unsettled LandsReportage·0 Comments·0·420 views
Space Paul Ewen·2nd April 2019Yes, he emphasised, a little country; and with inhabitants so much limited in number it was unlikely you...Number 32 | New ZealandReportage·0 Comments·0·568 views
Camping In Our House John Ewen·22nd March 2019Some people felt that the earthquakes had shaken Nature into being more productive.Number 32 | New ZealandReportage·0 Comments·0·257 views
Shakespeare would have done well in any generation Raymond Chandler·28th January 2019‘I don’t know why the hell I write so many letters,’ Raymond Chandler once wrote, in a letter....FictionNumber 2 | Out ThereReportage·0 Comments·0·965 views
American Fall Preti Taneja·3rd January 2019Preti Taneja, Jennifer Croft, Chika Unigwe, Shobha Rao, Danielle Evans, Sarah Weinman, Sharmila Sen, Diana Henderson, Jeanne McCulloch...Reportage·0 Comments·0·1075 views
An Album Can Last a Day Sam Byers·21st December 2018It doesn’t so much begin as swoop into land: thirty seconds of silence followed by the gathering swell...ArtNumber 48 | GlitchesReportage·0 Comments·0·6479 views
Social media is a kind of refuge. It’s a refuge from dealing with the more enlivening conflicts within one’s real life. Nicholas Barrett·21st December 2018In his 2016 biography of Sigmund Freud, Adam Phillips describes the development of psychoanalysis as an attempt by...Number 48 | GlitchesReportage·0 Comments·0·1532 views
Sinatra Sang in Sentences Joe Moran·21st December 2018The style guides say: keep your sentences short. Write cleanly, cut as many words as you can, and...ArtNumber 48 | GlitchesReportage·0 Comments·0·2069 views
Who Rules the World Five Dials·7th December 2018‘If you remember Chomsky is relevant, that his thinking might have shaped you in some dusty moment in the past, go back to the text.’Number 42 | Days of ShameReportage·0 Comments·0·201 views
How to move on from Scorpio season Sophie Mackintosh·20th November 2018The first step is to move blinking into the light. Then, maybe, to survey the wreckage. Then, maybe,...Reportage·0 Comments·0·260 views
‘We can certainly learn from the past. But it doesn’t mean that anything’s going turn out in the same way.’ Antony Beevor·4th October 2018One day I took the train to see historian Antony Beevor in rural Kent. On the drive to...InterviewsNumber 46 | What is it good for?Reportage·0 Comments·0·2199 views
Brits on the Water Jamie Brisick·29th May 2018I’m grateful for the new pub, and on a Sunday afternoon my wife, two sons and I will...Number 45 | Europe in PiecesReportage·0 Comments·0·384 views