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Getting Rid of It

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September 2022

Ariel Saramandi

Essay

September 2022

As a schoolgirl I was told that abortion was illegal in Mauritius. No exceptions. There was no reason for me to believe otherwise. At...

Interview

August 2022

Interview with Yaa Gyasi

Alok Vaid-Menon

Interview

August 2022

In my first year of college I auditioned for our school’s spoken word poetry collective. There was this tradition...

Essay

August 2022

Four Years

Oliver Basciano

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August 2022

Seeing the pen hover millimetres above my notebook in anticipation, Dona Vilma holds up her hand. ‘Ask me anything...

Interview

Issue No. 33

Interview with Bani Abidi

Skye Arundhati Thomas

Interview

Issue No. 33

In the three-minute short Mangoes (1999) by Berlin-based Pakistani artist Bani Abidi, two women sit next to each other on...

Essay

July 2022

The Weeping Woman

Isabelle Dupuy

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July 2022

We were clearing the dishes after dinner when I found myself telling my 15 year old son the story...

Essay

Issue No. 33

The Inheritors

Ariel Saramandi

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Issue No. 33

It is a story told in every Creole family I know in Mauritius. It is often narrated during a...

Interview with Siri Hustvedt

Interview

Issue No. 33

Noga Arikha

Interview

Issue No. 33

Very few writers in the twenty-first century are polymaths of the sort that previous centuries sometimes spawned – those who knew about all the...

Interview

June 2022

Warped Pastoral: Ralf Webb and Sam Buchan-Watts in Conversation

Ralf Webb

Interview

June 2022

Sam Buchan-Watts’s Path Through Wood, published in October 2021, begins where you would think: in a coppice, where branches tick...

Essay

June 2022

Who is a Revolutionary Subject?

Helen Mackreath

Essay

June 2022

In the face of legal restraints, police repression, political violence and the pressures and insecurity precipitated by the pandemic,...

Interview with Sara Ahmed

Interview

Issue No. 33

Rhoda Feng

Interview

Issue No. 33

Consider the exclamation mark. Medieval in origin, this blink of ink has a gift for controversy. A single point can signal a moment of...

 

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