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Especially the Bad Things
Stories by Greg Gerke / £9.99
"These swift, swervy, nervous fictions are heartachingly hilarious and stocked from margin to margin with agony-born brilliances fresh and revitalizing."
- Gary Lutz, author of Divorcer -
Carrying Fire and Water
Stories by Deirdre Shanahan / £9.99
Winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize
"Stories beautifully told in image-rich, powerfully descriptive language and an elegiac tone."
- The Irish Times -
Babel
Stories by Gabriel Blackwell / £9.99
Part Borges, part Calvino, part Hieronymous Bosch, the eerie fictions of Gabriel Blackwell offer warped reflections of domestic lives in turmoil, relationships on the brink of an abyss. Enter at the risk of plunging in, with nothing in the depths to break your fall.
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Unspeakable
A novella by Daniel Davis Wood / £6.99
Can sympathy alone rescue the victim of a crime from desecration and despair? Is moral imagination capacious enough to provide restitution? This powerful novella probes the complex ethics of doing justice to the private tragedies of other people.
Everything Carries On
MacKenzie Warren reviews Ben Pester’s Am I In the Right Place? (more…)
Varieties of Silence
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Sandra Hoffmann’s Paula (trans. Katy Derbyshire) (more…)
The Work of Memory
MacKenzie Warren reviews Jordi Llavina’s London Under Snow (trans. Douglas Suttle) (more…)
Talking About Trauma
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Trauma, edited by Sam Mills and Thom Cuell. (more…)
Grotesque Physicalities
Daniel Green reviews Hugh Fulham-McQuillan’s Notes on Jackson and His Dead. (more…)
Everything Looks at Everything
Katie da Cunha Lewin reviews Rebecca Tamás’ Strangers. (more…)
Finding Herselves
Charlotte Newman reviews Olja Knežević’s Catherine the Great and the Small. (more…)
“With high regard, though seldom played”
Chris Via reviews William Gaddis’ The Recognitions. (more…)
A Very Human Process
David Hebblethwaite reviews Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (trans. Jackie Smith). (more…)
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Our Dreams Might Align
Stories by Dana Diehl / £8.99
By the winner of the New Delta Review Prize
"The breadth of possibility in this collection is enormous, and the prose is absolutely exquisite."
- Jen Corrigan, The Coil -
Flare and Falter
Stories by Michael Conley / £8.99
Longlisted for the 2019 Edge Hill Prize
"Clever, at times twisted, but always entertaining."
- Jackie Law, Never Imitate -
Above the Fat
Stories by Thomas Chadwick / £8.99
Featuring stories shortlisted for the White Review Prize and the Galley Beggar Prize
"Chadwick is insightful, his writing spare and bleakly comic, with sharp wit."
- Thom Cuell, 3:AM Magazine -
Hang Him When He Is Not There
A novel by Nicholas John Turner / £8.99
Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize
"Sharp... weird... dreamlike and nightmarish."
- Eley Williams, author of Attrib. & Other Stories -
Between the Word and the World
Essays by Anna MacDonald / £8.99
Is it possible for an experience of literature to be an experience of life? Can we think of words as existing in three dimensions, as things we move through, in much the same way that we move through the world?
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See What I See
Essay by Greg Gerke / £12.99
"See What I See is the very brew needed in these parched times. Greg Gerke's generous, thoughtful reflections on the experience of art are full of reverence for the illuming efforts of writers and filmmakers."
- Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood
Hugh Fulham-McQuillan
Hugh Fulham-McQuillan discusses writing Notes on Jackson and His Dead. (more…)
Deirdre Shanahan (2 of 2)
Deirdre Shanahan discusses writing Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Deirdre Shanahan (1 of 2)
Deirdre Shanahan discusses the craft of the short story. (more…)
Joshua Rothes
Joshua Rothes discusses editing Kyle Coma-Thompson and Tristan Foster’s 926 Years. (more…)
Greg Gerke (2 of 2)
Greg Gerke discusses the qualities that make art meaningful. (more…)
Greg Gerke (1 of 2)
Greg Gerke discusses the art of short fiction and the aural approach to writing literature. (more…)
Thomas Chadwick (1 of 2)
Thomas Chadwick discusses his writing process and inspirations, and the art of the short story. (more…)
Michael Conley (1 of 2)
Michael Conley discusses his story collection Flare and Falter. (more…)
Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole discusses translating Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Tidings of the Trees. (more…)
Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell discusses translating Alejandro Zambra’s Not to Read. (more…)
Brian FitzGibbon
Brian FitzGibbon discusses translating Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Hotel Silence. (more…)
Cherilyn Elston
Cherilyn Elston discusses translating Jorge Consiglio’s Southerly. (more…)
Becca Rothfeld on Sanctimony Literature
Building on her critical reading of Sally Rooney’s Normal People a year ago, Becca Rothfeld surveys the characteristics of a genre she calls “sanctimony literature” in Liberties. (more…)
Ryan Ruby on Chris Power
Amid a great deal of fanfare for Chris Power’s début novel, A Lonely Man, Ryan Ruby has stepped forth with a dissenting view in the New Left Review. (more…)
Samuel Liu on David Foster Wallace
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Samuel Liu reassesses the work of David Foster Wallace in light of an uncertainty about Wallace’s gifts, let alone his supposed “genius”: (more…)
Thomas Chatterton Williams on #DisruptTexts
In his regular column for Harper’s, Thomas Chatterton Williams takes aim at the #DisruptTexts movement, which advocates for the diversification of reading lists via the purging of titles that are not “relevant” to minority communities. (more…)
Six Texts
Exclusive new stories by Gabriel Blackwell. (more…)
Leson
An excerpt from Gabriel Blackwell’s Babel. (more…)
A Field in Winter
An excerpt from Gabriel Blackwell’s Babel. (more…)
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An excerpt from Gabriel Blackwell’s Babel. (more…)
Stories of the Self-Drowned
An excerpt from Anna MacDonald’s A Jealous Tide. (more…)
“I have felt the impact of the dive”
An excerpt from Anna MacDonald’s A Jealous Tide. (more…)
Falling Out of Time
An excerpt from Anna MacDonald’s A Jealous Tide. (more…)
Mosaic Maker, Italy
An excerpt from Jessica Sequeira’s A Luminous History of the Palm. (more…)
Nine Days: Modes of Distraction
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Weights
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Araiyakushimae
An excerpt from Deirdre Shanahan’s Carrying Fire and Water. (more…)
Florence, the Film Critic
Exclusive new fiction by Greg Gerke. (more…)
Whitegoods for Your Daughters
An excerpt from a new story by Victoria Manifold, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
The Unsuccessful Candidate
An excerpt from a new story by Thomas Chadwick, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
A conversation recorded before the end of the experiment
An excerpt from a new story by Abi Hynes, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
Big Lads
An excerpt from a new story by Michael Conley, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
That Boy
An excerpt from a new story by Reneé Bibby, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
The Earth Room
An excerpt from a new story by Dana Diehl, published in the first Splice anthology. (more…)
Mother
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Or So
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Bach, a Beard, Two Women
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Issues
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
Careful
An excerpt from Greg Gerke’s Especially the Bad Things. (more…)
The TV Show
Exclusive new fiction by Victoria Manifold. (more…)
Rosie
Exclusive new fiction by Abi Hynes. (more…)
Skills in the Domestic Arts
Exclusive new fiction by Reneé Bibby. (more…)
Politics
Exclusive new fiction by Thomas Chadwick. (more…)
Birch
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat (more…)
Above the Fat
An excerpt from Thomas Chadwick’s Above the Fat. (more…)
A New Face
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
Sister Luz
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Negritas
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Mother
An excerpt from Nicholas John Turner’s Hang Him When He Is Not There. (more…)
The Village Where Everyone Keeps Punching Themselves in the Mouth
Exclusive new fiction by Michael Conley. (more…)
Pinniped
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The God Quetzalcoatl Has Retired and Now Runs a Pub in South Manchester
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Krill Rations
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
When It Starts
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Marked
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
Anatidaephobia
An excerpt from Michael Conley’s Flare and Falter. (more…)
The Sanctuary
Exclusive new fiction by Dana Diehl. (more…)
Account For Who You Say You Are
An excerpt from Jesse Ball’s Census. (more…)
In Touch With the Deep Sources of Fiction
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Collected Short Fiction. (more…)
Emptying My Mind
An excerpt from Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts. (more…)
To Date a Time Traveler
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
Swallowed
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
We Know More
An excerpt from Dana Diehl’s Our Dreams Might Align. (more…)
My mother appeared to be in command of herself…
An excerpt from Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade. (more…)
Alice and Amar
Excerpts (elsewhere) from Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry. (more…)
Mortuary
An excerpt from Brian Dillon’s In the Dark Room. (more…)