Milkshake tears
Isha Karki interrogates white tears, milkshake victimisation, and how to resist apathy in the age of Anything Can Happen and Things Will Get Worse
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Articles
Ghosts
As she reflects on the current political situation in her home, Claudia Durastanti elegantly dispatches with the idea of the 'ghost of fascism' that supposedly haunts Italy
But where, and to whom?
In Croatia, Olja Savičević writes, 'WWII crimes are being relativized, and history is distorted in the name of religion and patriotism'.
Editorial: blind faith
Not permanent, but real: a conversation with Selva Almada
Being both – a very personal revolution
Jan Carson reflects on being Northern Irish in the age of Brexit.
A new life
Theodora Sarah Abigail (Ebi) reflects on how motherhood has upended her life.
Blood on its hands: a conversation with Robert Menasse
Austrian writer Robert Menasse’s The Capital (translated from German by Jamie Bulloch) has been called ‘the first EU novel’. We talked to him about political writing and his belief in the EU as a transnational project.
No time for arrogance: a conversation with Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer now based in Zagreb. We caught up with her during her book tour to talk about politics, the marketplace of ideas, and how writers in exile are victimised.
Editorial: revolution
As the UK makes its way through the interminable Brexit process, it's time for an issue on the radical political and personal changes that we see going on around us, and within us.
Normality is fiction: a conversation with Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin is the celebrated author of Fever Dream and Mouthful of Birds. We spoke to her about the relationships she explores in her work, the concept of normality, and how to write about technology.
Permission to connect
Pleasure, carnality, lust: Saskia Vogel investigates ‘logical families’ built around a common interest in the erotic