Chaosmos
Turkish artist Emel Karakozak explores the fictions of human bodies in flux through this haunting series of images, somewhere between lonely and free.
Inner Isolation
Does tragedy and loneliness make for good art? Labdhi Shah’s finger-painting series seeks to dive deeper into that question in the uncertain, confined context of the global pandemic
Olives
"Catching cloud crumbs" as planes go by forms part of the meditative universe of this new poem by Amal Al Shamsi
Companion
New in our haiku column by Louise Gerodias, on intimacy and isolation.
Meditations in the Room
Kate Gough’s new poem talks about mental health during quarantine.
Elefante
A short story about an obese man. New in fiction, by Salvatore Difalco.
Traveler 1
A poem in movement that harks back to Cicero, by Lucy Western.
It's a Good Time to Be Lonely
“2018 is a good time to be lonely. Constantly consume technology, like a pac-man, instead” – Zoe Jane Patterson reflects on a past relationship and the slow erosion of technological distractions in the face of millennial loneliness. New in arts & culture.
Now Where Did I Put...?
New in fiction, a short story about an absent-minded philosophy professor.
Q Train
A traveler’s poem, set in New York City.
A Forgotten Birthday
A mother waits for her son. New in poetry.
In That House On a One-Way Street
“I can’t hear myself through the thumbtack / burying itself tenderly behind my teeth” - how does it feel on the precipice of trust?
No Time For Talking
A house party, and the dare of desire.
Curdling
Looking back on a past love.
A Zoologist had to Move to Kunming, Yunnan, China.
New in fiction, by Arthur De Oliveira.
Television Romance
“Yours is a face for the magazines / I wish I was your phone’s front camera to see every angle / Romantic surveillance” - a new love poem by Tzy Jiun Tan, inspired by Pale Waves and The 1975.
Danny, the Lonely Blue Boy
New fiction set in America, by Ruobing Sabrina Zhao.
Aisle
An experimental poem by Amal Al Shamsi.
The Man is Gone
What happens when the man departs? What does it do to you? Face your feelings in this poem.
Rewinded
Zoe Jane Patterson rewinds time in this poem, to observe a wife and husband and the subservience in between, from the eyes of a young child.