The Last One Who Wasn’t a Rabbit ↗︎
5 min read
You devoured my parents, relatives, and close friends. Give them back to me. But who are “you”?
Read the piece →Archives
I Don’t Know When to Stop Reading and Start Writing: Jeremy Fernando in Conversation ↗︎
13 min read
“I can only write, read, and leave it to be read. That is the risk of writing.”
Read the piece →Literary Taste and Its Limits ↗︎
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To put it more plainly, it wasn't a style he particularly liked. But what made him hesitate was that he thought the poem was quite good within its own style. "Solid, patient," he said.
Read the piece →Wallace Stevens’s Jar and Redbicycle ↗︎
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An otherwise ordinary jar, because of a change in its position, became the visual centre, thereby changing the order of the entire space. This was also, in fact, a change in ideas and in the order of the inner world.
Read the piece →Where She's Going, Where She's Been? ↗︎
8 min read
"The claim by some critics that her immense output is seen as lack of editing is absurd, one is unlikely to ever find a superfluous word in any of Oates's stories."
Read the piece →My Mother Was Beautiful When She Was Young ↗︎
5 min read
The apartment we rent is in the second row of buildings by the sea. Every morning, standing at the kitchen balcony's glass door, my gaze passes through the gap between two buildings in the front row, taking in the vast expanse of azure sea.
Read the piece →Sentencing Sentences ↗︎
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We put words into sentences, but can sentences also sentence us? Through wordplay and philosophical reflection, Jeremy Fernando questions who—or what—is really in control when we write.
Read the piece →Just Writing ↗︎
6 min read
Could the sound of cracking an egg disturb a downstairs neighbour? From troublesome guests to autumn leaves and childhood memories, Fish Lu follows his wandering thoughts in this essay about life, writing and everything in between, without trying to make anything seem more important than it is.
Read the piece →A Trip. ↗︎
15 min read
A journey through unfamiliar towns, winding streets, and unexpected encounters. In A Trip, ordinary moments and small observations gradually form a personal account of travel and discovery.
Read the piece →Beyond Borders: Xi Nan on Poetry, Translation and Independent Writing ↗︎
8 min read
Xi Nan speaks with Nick DeForest about Chinese poetry, literary translation, independent writing and the relationship between literature, society and individual freedom.
Read the piece →See Me Scared to Move ↗︎
4 min read
A summer job as a nighttime security guard brings a young writer face to face with spiders, shadows and the strange weight of fear.
Read the piece →Poetry, Solitude and a Hundred Tortoises: An Interview with poet Zhou Li ↗︎
4 min read
Fish Lu speaks with Chinese poet Zhou Li about poetry, emotions, everyday work and the company of a hundred tortoises. Translated by Xi Nan.
Read the piece →Sentences Walk ↗︎
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Twenty short prose pieces by Zhang Wei. Translated by Xi Nan.
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