Soul Blind

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

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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.

Rose, Snowflake, Star, Sun

The cross-border journeys of a beloved symbol

The Jester’s Lament

Can Tyler, The Creator shake off his past with Chromakopia?

A Night with Smiley

Unrelenting snow, bottomless drinks, unexpected acquaintances, and strange sights.

The Hideaway

In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world

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.