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Whatever You Say

Whatever You Say

Tom Inglis

No news: letters from John McGahern, who didn’t like writing letters

Cain’s World

Cain’s World

Amanda Bell

A protest against ‘the developer’ and paean to the wildness within

Coasting

Coasting

Patricia Craig

A Reader from ‘Archipelago’, a review celebrating wild Britain and Ireland

Tell us a Story

Tell us a Story

Kevin Power

The pursuit of fictive pleasure: on not getting Fernando Pessoa

Virtue Unrewarded

Virtue Unrewarded

Kevin Stevens

Jonathan Franzen’s America is a place of insecurity and confusion.

Mindful Fictions

Mindful Fictions

Luke Warde

The relentless self-questioning of Emmanuel Carrère’s nonfictions

Normal Girls

Normal Girls

Eva Kenny

‘The Rooney Effect’: taking the affective temperature of the patriarchy

Written with Tears

Written with Tears

Amanda Bell

An inspiring essay collection from inside the Travelling community

William’s World

William’s World

Peter Brooke

Blake’s visions of Eden and the meaning of imagination in his verse

The Attic Tarantino

The Attic Tarantino

Sean Sheehan

The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage

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