Soul Blind

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

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

The Creature

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

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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.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

‘I’m Trying to Dig Into Our Deepest Fears Rather Than Make a Political Statement’: An Interview with Sophie Mackintosh

The author of Blue Ticket on leaving things unsaid, weaponizing humour, and bodily autonomy.

‘The Most Honest Version of How Other People See Us’: An Interview with Naoise Dolan

The author of Exciting Times on spreading goodwill, navigating and honouring difference, and the lie of meritocracy.

'There Are Plenty of Readers For Whom Plot is Not the Be-All and End-All': An Interview with Eimear McBride

Talking to the author of Strange Hotel about the tolerance and patience of readers, writing "difficult" books, and the urgency that comes with age.

Paper Faces on Parade

Sanctioning the buffoonery of Joel Schumacher.

'You Can Sing an Alternate Reality': An Interview with Sasha Geffen

Talking to the author of Glitter Up the Dark about Savage Garden as entry-point to fandom, missing shitty clubs in the midst of a pandemic, and Britney Spears's communist reblogs.

Perverts Like Us

There was a creative storytelling aspect to sex, and a form of intimacy we didn't share with boys.