Being both – a very personal revolution
Jan Carson reflects on being Northern Irish in the age of Brexit.
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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
Super families
Families are different for those with superpowers. Sarah Shaffi explores the importance of the 'found family' trope in superhero and supervillain narratives.
Editorial: (found) families
Home, Tarçın and my mother
"I try to hold on to what I remember, wondering where and what home is for me." Ege Dündar hasn't seen his home, his mother, and his beloved dog in three years. He is building a life guided by memories.
The otherness
Yan Ge cultivates multiple selves, some more terrifying than others.
Metamorphosis
Darker, longer, tougher, stronger
‘Not everyone should have one, but 2017 was my annus horribilis.’ Pınar Öğünç reflects on Turkey, political change, and Sansevierias.
Just words
‘Could feminism transform language? And could a transformed language transform reality in turn?’ Alia Trabucco Zerán reports on recent changes in Spanish-language feminism.
On male refractions
Male inadequacy and virtual mirages of aggression: Guy Gunaratne on terrorism, incels and the performance of violent masculinity
the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place
Livia Franchini is stuck between two countries and languages, ‘back and forth between two distinct, self-sufficient identities of home’.
Editorial: hidden things
As the days are getting shorter, we investigate things that are tucked away in dark corners of the brain - or the national consciousness.
Silence as communication: a conversation with Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury is back with My Name Is Adam, the story of a man who decides to investigate what happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born.