The Week Kanye Joined Twitter

We find there are fewer dinosaurs when we learn how the skulls age.

10 Questions for Brooke Magnanti

November 2009 proved to be the end point of one the great literary hunts of recent times.

7 Questions for Nic Kelman

Nic Kelman’s debut novel girls was a Book of the Year in The New York Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.

The Swimmer in the Desert

He spits over the side of the tower and pats the handle of the revolver in his belt.

11 Questions for Ali Smith

Ali Smith is called “astonishing” by the New York Times and a “a genius” by Alain de Botton.

Meat, Veg and Stumpy

There won’t be any more taunts. They call him ‘Veg’ but from now on they will call him ‘Meat’.

The Gallery Affair

And I see her, the girl of my crutched dreams – La Gioconda smoking a pipe that’s not a pipe

Frida

If you travel far inside the one you love, into the distant continents that lie beyond the breakwaters and the ports of call

Afternoon

Six months before she died – it must have been just before she was diagnosed – I saw her, but she didn’t see me.

King’s Cross

When I lived in King’s Cross I used to lie on the bed and listen to my bones melting.

Her Hands Like My Hands

I remove her hands at the wrist without permission because she never touches my dick.

Nice Words

Her teacher asked them to take a piece of paper and write a nice word describing, one by one, everybody in the class.