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Italian Cuisine

I have heard that Italian cuisine is the most popular style of cooking in the world. I don’t know if this is true, but what I do know is that Italian cuisine do... Read more

Just Kids by Patti Smith

A remembrance by Ana da Silva

I bought Just Kids in summer 2010 at Waterstones, in Notting Hill, London. My copy is the British first paperback edition. The book is so full of love, warmt... Read more

Downtown Beirut

by Anbara Salam

This elegant pedestrianized neighbourhood was formerly the vibrant historical centre of Beirut, and is now host to many of Beirut’s swankiest, and priciest, caf... Read more

The Terrible Prophecies of Brexit

by Yanis Varoufakis

Brexit rode to victory on the coat-tails of a type of discontent whose power sprang from its insuperable reluctance to specify its nature. Seemingly focused on ... Read more

as in an account of language not as in a meteor

by Ira Brand

She is exhausted by wanting to be heard, which does not equate to not wanting to be heard any more.

Average

Candice Carty-Williams offers a catalogue of a body

In the white spaces through which I move, I am invisible and painfully visible at the same time.

Beauty is the Beast

Krishna Istha on queerness, gender and the people who raise us

"I am the person that people move away from on the bus. I am the person that cops stop for no reason."

Drag Kings and the Femme Gaze

Temi Wilkey on performance art and the inimitable Charli XCX

Temi Wilkey exults in the elasticity of sexuality, reflecting the fluid experience of drag back onto her waiting audience.

The Benefits of Time

by Nadia Albina

"I began writing to all the people I admired in the industry: I wanted to talk to them about disabled actors."

What Will Cost You Most

Chris Kraus looks back on a younger self

Chris Kraus looks back on her younger self, tracing the urge to capture thought and feeling on celluloid film.

Singing Over the Bones

by Abi Andrews

"Is this how the pioneers felt? Intoxicated by America’s limitlessness?"

Back from Afghanistan

Svetlana Alexievich records the words of a soldier’s mother

A mother I walk alone … I’ll be walking alone for a long time now. He killed someone … My son … With a kitchen axe – I used to trim and beat meat with it. He... Read more