Mailing List


Rebecca Liu
Rebecca Liu is a commissioning editor at Guardian Saturday and a staff writer at Another Gaze.

Articles Available Online


There are only girls on the internet

Book Review

August 2022

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2022

I remember the first time I saw it, like a freshly alert hare alarmed by movement in the distant grasslands. It was 2013. Model...

Book Review

September 2020

Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Bland Fanatics’

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

September 2020

The Anglo-American commentariat is full of lofty egos. Pankaj Mishra has developed a reputation as their great deflater. ‘Watch...

   AZRAEL   at the age you are now your father’s body had built a nest for an angel   you    key stage two    couldn’t place why he coughed wingbeats    cried shameless   the year wisemen saw the stowaway photobomber in a radio wave   today   tapping forty   your neck convexes you bookmark testaments   nothing makes sense like a toddler walking around with your face hurling a sippy cup at the wall   this summer we’re home braising our skirting boards and the bees are brave   buzzing thickets comfort crushed shale into shade and you run to remember not all angels are hereditary   in one version god drops a leaf and seven billion eyes read your name   forty days later a test card   this summer we cling to our tvs like gastropods on a rock the land before time​ washes up on netflix   little foot’s mum is dead like simba’s dad is dead like bambi’s mum is dead like bastian’s mum is dead   if this is how we level up to protagonist you’d rather swim in the shadow of a demiurge   you swing your daughter dizzy in the garden to remember not all childhoods are hereditary   at the age you first met memory she spies her shadow   takes it everywhere   but watches mama dinosaur die dry eyed while you break on the black friday couch   four thousand wings trying you on for size wonder why your kid’s hypothetical loss stings   sharper than your lived one you ask your mother   she says when the angel came she couldn’t look directly at your grief   a wooden doll inside hers   you say kids are resilient   you were ok   she says you weren’t though   were you     T MINUS ZERO   it won’t matter if the water is hot or cold it won’t matter about the plastic tub for the placenta or which pyjamas when you lie on a floor next to the lift trolleys splash rocky down corridors each   contraction a red sun setting over and in you   rise out of water his eyes catching you falling into the room

Contributor

August 2019

Rebecca Liu

Contributor

August 2019

Rebecca Liu is a commissioning editor at Guardian Saturday and a staff writer at Another Gaze.

Jia Tolentino’s ‘Trick Mirror’

Book Review

August 2019

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

August 2019

Talk about the fates of young professional women today and you will often alight on two themes: the anxieties that come with living in...

READ NEXT

fiction

April 2014

Submission for the Journal of Improbable Interventions

Brenda Parker

fiction

April 2014

Abstract Preparations for experimental work must be conducted without interruption to ensure experimental success. In this work, the impact...

feature

September 2016

The Rights Of Nerves

Masha Tupitsyn

feature

September 2016

‘I transform “Work” in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real “Work” — of...

feature

Issue No. 5

Choose Your Own Formalism

David Auerbach

feature

Issue No. 5

1. ALL SQUARES RESIDE IN THE HUMAN BREAST In 2007 game designer and Second Life CEO Rod Humble wrote...

 

Get our newsletter

 

* indicates required