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Trajectory by May-Lan Tan

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I don’t know how to record things to memory yet, so I make it a dot-to-dot picture to […]

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The Hanged Man by Joanna Walsh

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“The Hanged Man shows a man suspended, upside-down, from the living World Tree, rooted in the underworld and […]

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The Real Story: In the Half-light

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What happens in the place between light and dark, where one thing is changing into another? Join The […]

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The Real Story and Dead Ink Books present ‘Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class’

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If you think the class system isn’t alive and well in 21st Century Britain, you haven’t been paying […]

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Where to Submit: Autumn 2017

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The days are getting shorter and that pile of unpublished writing of yours is getting longer. Or, okay, […]

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Book Review: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

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When I think about empathy it’s always as opposed to sympathy; sympathy is often wetter, patronising sometimes, and […]

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Q&A with Joanna Kavenna

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Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, […]

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The Real Story: Live with Joanna Kavenna

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We’re delighted to announce that Joanna Kavenna will headline our next The Real Story: Live event at Gulliver’s, […]

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Review: The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum

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In Meghan Daum’s last collection of essays, My Misspent Youth, she captured the ambitions and anxieties of a […]

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‘Astronomical winter, 2012’ by Lenni Sanders

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Every late autumn, early winter, I get to thinking about Canadian musician Mac DeMarco. His woozy, chiming, angular, […]

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