You came in with a picky head, uneven and coarse, disguised underneath a baseball cap, and you left swiftly afterwards a new man, smelling sweetly of coconut oil and with a cut as sharp and clean as a...
You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can’t cross.
[…] A brother don’t need a gate – he jumps the fence. That’s street.’‘Again, please?’ said Howard.‘Street, street,’ bellowed Zora. It’s like, being street, knowing the street – in Levi’s sad little wo...
Begins with you walking towards a huge pit. The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don’t kn...
Can. I didn’t think it was true, but it was kind and I clung to it and kept taking the class, and
Fiction can’t be written to comply with winning arguments.
In fact the Mail’s campaign is a chilling lesson in how a superficial manipulation of liberal identity politics can be used to silence a genuinely protesting voice, one that is trying to speak for us...
Mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.
Or at least I felt that within the lie there was a deeper truth.
The object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.
Who might have run faster than a speeding train, if they had been free to do so, but for whom, born in the wrong time, in the wrong place, all stops were closed, who were never even permitted to enter...
Yes, with the mothers she had to make a little more effort, drowning them in language until they understood how out of their depth they were and the thin stream of their objections was completely subs...
And a bottom which was the Platonic ideal of all English bottomry.
The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
21. Jane EyreWhen being bullied Keisha Blake found it useful to remember that if you read the relevant literature or watched the pertinent movies you soon found that being bullied was practically a si...
A different kind of history from my mother’s, the kind that is barely written down—that is felt.
A feminist who had always been supported by men—first my father and now the Noted Activist—and who, though she continually harangued me about the nobility of labor, had never, as far as I knew, actual...
A minute later, the young Turk and Howard parted on frosty terms, not much warmed by Howard’s twenty-pence tip, the only extra change he had in his pocket. It is on journeys like this – where one is s...
A neutral place. The chances of finding one these days are slim, maybe even slimmer than Archie’s pinball trick. The sheer quantity of shit that must be wiped off the slate if we are to start again as...
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