Every House Learnt How to Burn
A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
Constantinople’s Jacket
In “Constantinople’s Jacket,” Álvaro Enrigue turns corporate certification into a sharp, absurd and brutal satire of workplace obedience. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the story follows an office swallowed by ...
The Nest
On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
Pigeon
On a London Underground journey home from a clinic, a young woman sits beside her mother, caught between exhaustion, memory and the threat of being sent back to Mexico. When ...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY
Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...