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The Terrible Prophecies of Brexit

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

Face Blindness

Sarah Lyall on a curious condition

Last winter I got an email inviting me to a dinner party. Let’s say the host’s name was Barry Johnson. I’ve known him and his wife casually over the years, but ... Read more

On Ivanka and Blindness

by Five Dials

We are now deep in the era of Trump. As a magazine, we’ve accepted our role. We don’t employ an investigative team. Our contributors’ page lacks a platoon of re... Read more

In the face of this kind of misplaced hysteria, good rappers don’t back down. They defend the right to use words in the same way any novelist or filmmaker is free to do. They tell their personal truths.