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

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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...

‘Sometimes I go to the tavern and get drunk          What of it?’                                 Nesimi 1 Bars tend us in our brighter afternoons toward the gentler tenses: conditionality, subjunctivity, would reign within their glasses’ stains, so that it might be possible to claim, if there could be a bar where Lorne Greene drank, post-Battlestar, a whole Bonanza shot – if these could somehow have been filmed within these Borders, in this North East – then it would be here where the piano is forever paused, the Cylons placed on charge, beneath this rippling cream ceiling motif not so unlike the way his hair was combed   2 In fact no keyboard need be present, just the suspension of its mammoth tooth-tonk will suffice, any further note defeats both memory and prediction of our tune In fact succession can find no hook here, like the gecko’s rubber foot, baffled by some non-surface, some lack of wall, the brim of things must suffice for now   3 The soft stabilities of brass and glass in late Saturday sunlight, unsure if it’s still summer, gloss on green leather, wrought-iron table legs tucked under sight, polite as beetles, suds amounting to a glaucoma lens of foam, and the muted flame, haemetite immersed in the alien finger- length depth of the pint’s remains Lorne must rejoin us, his stunted doubles, here, and pay off all his gunless hands with ale: all princes among men are here disinherited of their kinricks; in fact are here defined by abdication of any claim upon the future   4 Lorne! Lorne of the sausage they do not serve here at six o’clock alongside the pork pies and many fatty nibbles; Lorne of the flattened sausages of Scotland as though the issue of a union between minced meat

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...

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fiction

June 2016

Beast

Paul Kingsnorth

fiction

June 2016

I stood in the river up to my knees and the river was cold. The water filled my boots...

feature

July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

feature

July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

Interview

October 2013

Interview with Nick Goss

James Cahill

Interview

October 2013

Nick Goss has emerged in recent years as one of the UK’s most feted young painters. Evoking indistinct places...

 

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