The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

Midwives

It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

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The Almost Dad

Is it okay that he’s over here so often, hooking up my mum’s speakers and swirling his single malt Scotch? We all wonder, we never ask.

Victims and Executioners

Whatever angle you look at it, one detail is incontrovertible: in the end, a man is going to be killed.

Midwives

It’s weird how hitting the ground doesn’t really hurt.

The Bodybuilder

These art objects let me feel my own living form through the many shapes they had been pressed into.    

‘People are Grappling with Losing the Life They Had Before’: An Interview with Karolina Waclawiak

The author of Life Events on grieving, exit guides, and the way we think about death. 

Concerning the Many Legends of the Cyclone Named Jack Trice

He was a hero, a man who broke a barrier, but everything that’s happened since he died has way more to do with us than him.

'Haunted Literature Can Be a Powerful Medium for Looking at the Ignored': An Interview with Laura van den Berg

The author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears on spectral encounters and exorcisms, America’s rejection of history, travel literature, and boxing.  

'As Writers, Do We Have a Responsibility to the Dead?': An Interview with Sara O'Leary

The author of The Ghost in the House on acts of grace, territorial tendencies, and the silver lining in things being temporary.

Bugsy

The videos were different from anything I’d ever seen. Rope, leather, buckles, straitjackets, Lycra, latex, gas masks, ball gags. The women had ideas and Vanessa let them act the ideas out.

‘In Isolation, Everything Has More Meaning’: An Interview with Ottessa Moshfegh

The author of Death in Her Hands on putting characters in blank spaces, crime solving, and consumption.