Jeff Goldblum

Did he just throw my cat out of the window? Did he just throw my cat out of the window?

Snigdha Poonam

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Javier Zamora

Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’

Cynan Jones

‘A pair of seagulls. I say a pair. They might just be good friends.’

Rae Armantrout

‘Music needs silence / more than silence needs music.’ New poetry by Rae Armantrout.

Jennifer Kabat

‘In Hollin Hills, we believed our flatware could change the world.’ Jennifer Kabat on the intersection of modernist architecture and espionage.

Janet Frame

‘Nothing has changed, Edgar said. What new event is written into their history? None. Where is their future? Nowhere. Are they against or for progress? It was dark when Edgar took the box outside down to the rubbish heap and sprinkled the dead moths upon the ashes of the diseased pawpaw.’ Janet Frame on an unsettling natural process.

Sigrid Rausing

‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’

Miriam Toews

‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’

Matilda Gustavsson

Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

Feng Sun Chen

‘Every day, I see a monstrosity in the kissing hole.’

Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold

‘For those caught beneath its thrum, there’s no comfort that the drone, and whoever is at its helm in America, is only targeting the bad guys.’ Eliza Griswold introduces Tomas van Houtryve's unsettling photo-essay taken by drones coming close to civilian life in the manner of the drones currently deployed in Afghanistan.

Aatish Taseer

‘That first sight of the city curled around the river goes through me like the breath of something old and known and familiar. The city has been destroyed many times in the last thousand years, no less by development authorities than by conquerors. And yet it is so perfect an articulation of the culture that built it that the overlay of centuries has not muffled its voice.’ Aatish Taseer revisits Varanasi.

Ivan Chistyakov

‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’

Kelly Schirmann

‘I have never been in love / with so many variants of nothing.’

Luke Kennard

‘A man sat on the corner of Karl's anorak and didn't notice, pulling Karl slightly to the right. He stared at the man's shoes. Brogues, a slight residue of shoe polish. He stared ahead at the empty stage. Now he had left it too long to do anything about it.’ Luke Kennard's fictional take on business motivational classes.

Javier Zamora

‘I will etch visas on toilet paper and throw them from a lighthouse.’

Françoise Huguier & A.M. Homes

‘Blow the candle out, taste the darkness and come back changed.’

Lara Vapnyar

‘He regretted not buying the flowers.’

Adam Thorpe

‘I am full of unreal desires and worthless imaginings.’

Will Alexander

‘how can all the pressures of surveillance / fail to describe me?’

Sarah Gerard

‘In Amway, there’s no such thing as contentment.’

Emmanuel Carrère & Darcy Padilla

‘Even today, she still speaks with emotion about Dorian, the transsexual so proud of her breasts, Diane, who weighed only sixty-five pounds, and Steven, who was so frightened of dying alone that Darcy wished she could promise to be with him when the time came.’ Emmanuel Carrèrre on addiction and poverty in an forgotten America.

Marian Ryan

‘I will lay down what I want, and I will get it, and prove I am not the kind of woman who is controlled by a man.’

Melissa Febos

‘In a country whose government we do not trust, who do we need more than writers and teachers? And what is more powerful than an inspired youth?’

Linda H. Davis

‘I had become the kind of parent I never wanted to be.’

Various Artists

Protest is an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by sixteen artists concerned with the sociopolitical issues of their day.

James Pogue

‘This election made clear that white people in this country have begun to vote how Southern whites always have: as a bloc.’