Featured Fiction essays
Furnished Minds
Kate Briggs’ The Long Form is equal parts fiction and a critical survey of the history of fictionality. In her review, Sophie Gee shows how Briggs’ formal experiments and portraits of intimate relations return us to the origins of the novel form.
A Lotus with a Long Stalk
Luke Carman reviews Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital, a translated novel depicting a linguist’s experience of psychosis and institutionalisation. As Carman argues, the novel’s distinctively ‘minimalist’ style underlines ‘a contingent relationship to sanity’ to which we are all vulnerable.
Fiction
Furnished Minds
Kate Briggs’ The Long Form is equal parts fiction and a critical survey of the history of fictionality. In her review, Sophie Gee shows how Briggs’ formal experiments and portraits of intimate relations return us to the origins of the novel form.
A Lotus with a Long Stalk
Luke Carman reviews Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital, a translated novel depicting a linguist’s experience of psychosis and institutionalisation. As Carman argues, the novel’s distinctively ‘minimalist’ style underlines ‘a contingent relationship to sanity’ to which we are all vulnerable.
What Is It Like to Be a Book?
Modern experiments in fiction writing have long convinced us that consciousness flows like a stream, but is it true of animals or AI? Ronnie Scott explores the range of narrative techniques used by writers from Lucy Ellmann to Octavia Butler to approach the ‘humanly inaccessible facts’ of consciousness.