'I Think Most People Feel Haunted': An Interview with Sara Peters

The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.

The Dead Mall Society

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

Picture This: You're a Frog

It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.

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'I Think Most People Feel Haunted': An Interview with Sara Peters

The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.

The Dead Mall Society

Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.

Picture This: You're a Frog

It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.

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.

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. 

'The Promises of Pleasure, Freedom, Excitement, Opportunity, and Encounter': An Interview with Leslie Kern

The author of Feminist City on intersectional urban planning, care work, and feminist geography. 

Water or Sky?

This wasn't the first time I had become obsessed with drowning.

‘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.