19th January 2026

Joanna Pidcock: The Doom Squad

"People who work with or in AI seem enthralled by it, and in conversation are often breathlessly delighted by its possibilities and awed by its power. As such an assumption is often made that other people will also find it interesting."

11th January 2026

Sarah Fletcher: 'Life, friends, is boring—’

"John Berryman’s speaker is relatable in his short attention span. Nothing can snag his interest. He acknowledges the greatness of the physical world: ‘the sky flashes | the great sea yearns’. He has been told to touch grass and found it no more green than he had hoped."

8th December 2025

Nick Bartlett: Knowing One's Place

A review of Geoff Dyer's new memoir, Homework (2025).

24th November 2025

Helena Aeberli: The Teller and the Tale

Helena Aeberli reviews Thea Lenarduzzi's The Tower (2025).

10th November 2025

The Lure of Space: Imogen Cassels in conversation with Will Burns

An interview with the poet Imogen Cassels, from Issue 8

6th October 2025

Helena Aeberli: The Caryatid Manifesto

"How can the artist re-create the caryatid, who volunteers herself willingly for pain, passively smiling beneath her heavy weight? . . . How to free the caryatid from her immanence, her servitude? Her marble-flesh paradoxical putty, an offering, an Othering, the serenity of her Mona Lisa smile. How to armour the armless to carve her own angel free?"

22nd September 2025

Austin Spendlowe: Russet Yeas and Honest Kersey Noes: Imogen Cassels and Sonnet 94

Austin Spendlowe reviews Imogen Cassels' much-fêted debut collection.

8th September 2025

'Why am I not always in a meadow of flowers?': Seán Hewitt in Conversation with Elmos Andrews

"I think that I increasingly think of myself as a writer. People often want to say a poet that wrote a novel. I think that if you write a novel, you’re then a novelist – I think that if I hadn’t written poems before, I would be a novelist. I take each form on its own terms, and so writer seems to cover what I do, which is write books."

1st September 2025

Luke Dunne: Subjunctivity

A review of Maureen N. McLane's My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

20th June 2025

Katie Mulkowsky: Casserole People

"There were other signs of the surreal that week, and they were all somehow marked by eating."

30th May 2025

Ed Cooper: Listening with Annea Lockwood's Rivers

Ed Cooper explores ambience as recorded soundscape by way of Annea Lockwood's River Archives Project.

9th May 2025

Rosa Appignanesi: Salome Salome Salome

Rosa Appignanesi explores the manifold figurations of Salome in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture, touching on both queerness and commerce.

25th April 2025

Matilda Sykes: Seen and Heard

Matilda Sykes reads Denise Riley's "Composed underneath Westminster Bridge" as a "hidden elegy".

13th March 2025

Patrick Christie: Searching for the Golden Age of Higher Education

Patrick Christie investigates the idea of 'a golden age of higher education' in campus novels of the post-war period.

14th February 2025

Sam Warren Miell: Unplaceable Terror

Sam Warren Miell reviews Dominic Lash's new book on Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 mystery-thriller masterwork.

31st January 2025

'It's All Staked on the Seasonal': An Interview with Luke Roberts

The poet-critic Luke Roberts in conversation with Will Burns, from Issue 7

Blog • 12th February 2024

George Cooper: 'The retail centre cannot hold'

Once a byword for numbing homogeneity, IKEA struck me, then, as a sanctuary for the over-stretched.

31st January 2024

Paul Norris: 'Ashbery's Vague Renaissance'

"Writers of the English Renaissance are often ‘fine’ for Ashbery, and bring with them a vague opulence."

9th January 2024

Lewis Barnes: 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Conserving the Future'

“I am working on things that will only be understood by the grandchildren of the 20th century.”

7th January 2024

Jess Payn: 'dark side of'

This piece clutches at coincidence, which lately includes the recurrence of the moon.