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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...

Owen’s room was clean and his laugh genuine and he’d roll you a smoke He was thirty-three, and had a broken wind chime spelling LOVE hanging from his wardrobe door   We lived in a shared house in London that was cheap because it was sinking You couldn’t tell from the inside, but looking out of the window told a different story The plastic flamingos staked in the garden soil were slanted, as if one of their pink legs was shorter than the other The house had been a funeral parlour, and retained its Victorian shop-front covered in yellowing newspaper You could read about the millennium bug in screaming black capitals; or peruse adverts for purebred puppies that had long since been put to sleep     I was the last to move in and got the smallest room The man-and-van man solemnly carried my life upstairs in boxes, avoiding the eyes of passing residents I followed him in and did the same I was twenty-six, jobless, with mildly webbed toes I listed these ailments aloud and let them hang in the air above my single bed At night, I listened to my neighbours shagging then arguing – make-up sexing in reverse   I’d moved to London a year earlier, assuming I’d quickly become a successful model I knew deep down I was too old, but I’d read in a dentist’s sticky waiting room magazine that Isabella Rossellini didn’t start her modelling career until she was twenty-eight With two new silver fillings and a still-numb mouth, I cut and dyed my mousy hair into an orange bob and shaved my eyebrows off I hoped my newfound edginess would hide my heart face, my five feet and seven inches   I fucked creeps with homemade tattoos who never texted back I bought shit coke and befriended posh girls with

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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poetry

May 2012

REGULAR BLACK

Sam Riviere

poetry

May 2012

Who wouldn’t rather be watching a film about werewolves instead of composing friends’ funeral playlists all day I’ve been...

poetry

October 2015

Two Poems

Robert Herbert McClean

poetry

October 2015

Another Autumn Journal Chaos (AKA Do Not Put This to Music Because You’re How Fish Put Up a Fight)...

Interview

Issue No. 11

Interview with Alice Oswald

Max Porter

Interview

Issue No. 11

Alice Oswald is a British poet who lives in Devon with her family. Newspaper profiles will inevitably mention the...

 

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