Attributed to William Notman. Still Life with Books, 1870s–80s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
214 – Theodicy
God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can ...
Rimac. Fish, 1000–1476. Cotton, slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts.Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.
You fail to see it coming. It’s always zombie humans ...
You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
Photo by Dave Winer
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood
kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow ...
Photo by Clay Leconey
There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and ...
Photo by Paola Rizzi
“The more resolutely you plumb the question, ‘Who or what am I?’ – the more unavoidable is the realisation that you are nothing…apart from everything else.”
-Alan W. ...
On finding oneself
About Rituparna ...
Ruth Gilligan in conversation about her award-winning novel The Butchers
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Menstruation strains a relationship.
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A letter to a former self living in an easier past.
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A new ghost figures out the rules of the game.
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A mother must acknowledge the passionate partnership of her daughter
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They’re closing this magic space of dust and light: the last nights, after months of fighting, of a Soho bar.
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A fashion photographer remembers her start in the business, in a story examining the nature of success, the illusions we believe in and the boundaries which we contain ourselves within. ...
A return home and a day in a charity shop…
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An intimate portrayal of a young couple dealing with the loss of their child.
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We hired him to paint our shopfront. A story about work, and loss.
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An essay exploring the museum in three parts. First, an account of a childhood experience of a museum, second, through a report about John Nevin, an employee of the V&A ...
She’d been lying awake since the crack of dawn, watching the sunrise creeping through the side of her curtains.
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Headlights are returning to the streets, drifting across the hall from the living-room door….
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