The Empty Tune

“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”

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The Empty Tune

“Bird,” he cried, “I come on behalf of the emperor. Your voice is all anyone speaks of.”

Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

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Novelists Dashiel Carrera and Michael Seidlinger on security and surveillance.

The Year in Medieval Erotics

It seems this year’s offerings from the Dark Ages want to raise a carnal, earthy prayer to the present age. 

The Best Worst Year

On pregnancy and grief during pandemic lockdown.

The Year in Empathy

People arrive at the ER every day looking for my help, and the uncomfortable truth is that I’m often so overwhelmed that I struggle to connect with them.

Not Even Seventeen

On two movies about teenagers.

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The author of If I Survive You on the gift of humour, the impact of the housing crisis, and family legacy.