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Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh's fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago X Stylist short story prize. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and forthcoming from Doubleday in the US.

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Lena Andersson's ‘Acts of Infidelity’

Book Review

July 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

Book Review

July 2018

Acts of Infidelity is the second novel by Lena Andersson that follows unlucky-in-love heroine Ester Nilsson, and it’s another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed...

Fiction

May 2018

Self-Improvement

Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction

May 2018

I had been sent back from the city in disgrace, back to my parents’ house in the country. It...

i’m running out of data on the train everyone is feeling particularly lonely it isn’t enough everyone & me     ear plugged & stirring    is listening to something considering charts & cadence of feet bounce it is likely we are listening to Drake   Drake says    sometimes i feel good sometimes i don’t   he knows that until he bursts from carbs or cliché we will love him always Drake has been on our minds now for some fourhundredtwenty weeks at least everyone & Drake is wearing t-shirts with Drake lyrics printed on them we are signing love letters and suicide notes with Drakeisms     it isn’t enough wake up mumbling something Drake drool on our pillow wonder where else still we can find traces of him we’re only now just learning   Drake says    more life more everything always more   feeding every hour on the hour all the amenities the biggest residential pool on the planet everybody in it my critics & my friends fat happy house my children & everybody loving me the pictures portrait of the artist eating    portrait of the artist in the biggest residential pool on the planet fat & happy Drake’s ear is to the zeitgeist     listening for something out there shooting his shot into space      waiting it isn’t enough to hold everybody & their faces    sing it there are so many people outside that haven’t heard it yet i don’t know if they can wait   how long Drake says     i do not know what permanence is i’m only now just learning i’m upset     doing the best that i can to be heard i need more content

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the...

Grace

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato then slicing each segment in...

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Issue No. 1

Ninety-Nine, One Hundred

Tess Little

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Issue No. 1

Sitting at a British Library desk in July 2006, a reader carefully consulted the fraying pages of A Relation...

poetry

November 2011

One Night Without Incident

Eoghan Walls

poetry

November 2011

Freak July mists blurred all from Portsmouth to Reading in a late summer sky turned wholly unfit for bombing,...

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June 2014

Writing What You Know

Simon Hammond

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June 2014

In the summer of 1959, a headstrong but lovesick English graduate took a trip to the hometown of his...

 

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