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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...

21 April   Imagine a passport to get into the house Trump announces ‘the suspension of immigration, unprecedented measures in the United States’ One morning coffee, Nescafé classic; then another ‘These measures were not even taken during the Second World War’ Flights cancelled in Europe, borders again etc Apparently swallows can stay in the air for up to 10 months without touching down on land A practical system in 2020 At two coffees, the morning begins to have the minimum light required for the head of a living subject Somebody talks about swallowing up the world and then spitting it out No one from outside can come in Anybody is a potential enemy The bunker is an architecture of politics, as of March 2020 Apply the system to each state, then to each city, then to each neighbourhood, then to each house The house: nobody from outside can come in Banning immigration At most, only those from inside can come in But whoever is inside can’t come in, that would be too stupid, they’re inside already Passport shown outside, at the window, to be able to get the door open Jastrow’s ambiguous figure: the look is deceptive If you look to the left you see a duck; if you look to the right, a rabbit There’s not much point Oktoberfest beer festival cancelled Pope postpones World Youth Day to 2023 And petrol sold this Monday at negative prices The whole mix of new stories of the highest and lowest importance at a great gallop is a kind of censorship through speed Speed covers up with the advantage of seeming to show What is important is not covered or hidden: it is just putting speed into the legs or the motor of what is important so that it’s quickly off the stage How many dead today and what was the final score in the match? 2-0? A video of Bob Dylan

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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Interview

January 2015

Interview with Magdalena Tulli

TR. Bill Johnston

Grzegorz Jankowicz

Interview

January 2015

This interview appeared in Po co jest sztuka? (What Is Art For?), a 2013 collection of interviews with Polish...

poetry

January 2015

dear angélica

Angélica Freitas

TR. Hilary Kaplan

poetry

January 2015

dear angélica   dear angélica I can’t make it I got stuck in the elevator between the ninth and...

fiction

January 2015

Judge Sa’b

Uday Prakash

TR. Jason Grunebaum

fiction

January 2015

Nine years ago, after thirteen years of living in the Rohini neighbourhood of north Delhi, I moved, and came...

 

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