"But rather than ‘cleaning up’ the area around the park, the imposition of the chain link fence has created a narrow, terrifying corridor far worse than anything I’d ever seen." Chris Kraus on what Los Angeles wanted to be: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/malaise-of...

"Even then, that familiar murmur, the buzz that travelled with him everywhere, had risen in pitch and volume and become audible. The echo of a whisper he’d first heard when he was five, he said, and had been echoing in his ears ever since." An extract from Faiqa Mansab's The Sufi Storyteller:

"I had expected there to be girls in horsey girls in white trousers and men in gilets who had studied Land Economy drinking lukewarm pints out of those plastic cups. But it was not, it became clear [...] that sort of do." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/some-kind-...

Wrote about my grandad knocking on the door every Saturday when I was a kid with bags full of shopping and a Lion bar in his pocket — and how times, and the high street we once frequented, have changed www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/a-chocolat...

@ericawgnr.bsky.social says @alisonbechdel.bsky.social's new comic novel Spent is "serious and joyous, acerbic and compassionate. It’s rare to be able to combine such qualities, and in tough times it’s inspiring to see." Catch an extract here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/putting-fo...

@alvior.bsky.social's Seven Days in Tokyo has been called ‘A study of misplaced desire and a poetic love letter to the city itself’ by playwright Jemma Kennedy — read an extract here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/symbols-of...

Read an excerpt here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/rain-over-...

"Exploring Coppermill Lane is a bit like watching open heart surgery on a city – those unseen arteries that course about it, service it and sustain it come to the surface, many old and failing after centuries of hard living." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/flying-ove...

Canal laureate Roy McFarlane on Benjamin Zephaniah. We've loved working with Roy over the last few years on his canal laureateship, and Benjamin was a Poetry Society Vice President. Lovely to read this tribute to him!

On the latest episode of the Boundless podcast, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social talks to @troopersnooks.bsky.social about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/12j3... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

This is a literary event. Order it, read it

Happy publication day to Patrick McCabe's Goldengrove, out now (unbound.com/products/gol...) A perfect time to revisit the brilliant piece Pat wrote for us, on the joy and terror of seeing his 1992 masterpiece, The Butcher Boy, get turned into a major film: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/when-holly...

Congrats to Kaliane Bradley on making the shortlist with The Ministry of Time! Back in February, Kaliane let us into her obsession with piecing together the patchy life of Polar explorer Robert McClure, which you can read here: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/finding-ro...

"Writers of science-based narrative nonfiction can help scientists communicate their work and doing this is part of how we combat the spread of fake news. They can bring human interest to what to the uninitiated can sometimes feel a dry topic. They can translate between worlds."

If you are a lover of BBC Radio 3 as I am, you'll love Douglas Kennedy's @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social piece — and you'll join me in hoping that the Sounds app works things out for international listeners! www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/music-hear...

"Mark Twain died in 1910. But he continues to speak to our present moment in ways that are as startlingly prescient as they are witty, brazen, and bold." Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would think of today's political predicaments: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/reader-sup...

Lovely article. I had the honour of meeting Benjamin 3 or 4 times. Ever the professional (not!) on one occasion I shuffled up to him and told him I loved his words. I looked embarrassed. He looked embarrassed. I shuffled silently away... Oh well.

National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — including two of Zephaniah's poems from the recently published collection Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

I love this beautiful piece in @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social so much. About damage and healing and summer fruit — and what a picture of Signe and her grandpa! 🇳🇴 🍓🫐

"'The lure of novelty has always been so key to seaside attractions,' Ferry tells me. 'Because to get people to travel there, you've got to offer them something new. Something faster, taller, brighter. The competition is intense.'" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/mobius-loo...

Spending your bank holiday Monday watching AppleTV+'s hot new show, CARÊME? Ian Kelly, whose book penned two decades ago formed the basis of the show, reveals how he first crossed paths with the subject he quickly became obsessed with: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/in-bed-wit...

Luscious cuisine! Political intrigue! What more could you want? A piece by the guy who wrote the book the series was made from, that's one. Subscribe to @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social and hear of Ian Kelly's adventures with the first celebrity chef... www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/in-bed-wit...

Pitbull stew, anyone? @tommygilhooly.bsky.social speaks to the founders of the controversial pop-up roadkill restaurant KHAM about the highs and lows of cooking things killed on the roads of London www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/roadkill-p...

I had a great time talking to the always-brilliant @ericawgnr.bsky.social about my new book. She really gets it open.spotify.com/episode/4qRi...

Love this piece about the history of how we look at clouds… both sides now… 🎶

What a wonderful essay by @iammilliam.bsky.social on literature and its curious reluctance to hang around in the suburbs. #TeamPooter

"And although today we still tend to portray clouds today as snapshots on our smartphones, or online as some sort of Instagram tableau, Howard had already realised, way back in 1803, that clouds are not rigid nor immutable" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/head-in-th...

"The story of the country-dwellers, and the city sophisticates, has been told often enough; it is time somebody spoke of the suburbs, for therein, I have sometimes felt, lies the history of our race." - R.F. Delderfield THE DREAMING SUBURB (1958) A peeved & witty essay from @iammilliam.bsky.social

My third gallery café column for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social - this time I’m at the Royal Academy of Art, eating raspberry cake and looking at The Last Supper, over and over and over again… open.substack.com/pub/boundles...

"Acts of violence have always occurred but I don’t think we can overlook the impact on young people in rural, post-industrial towns, feeling disconnected and cut off." An extract from @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social's Uncommon Ground: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/a-sort-of-...

Absolutely fascinating piece by @iammilliam.bsky.social on the treatment of suburbia in fiction...

This is very good. I read RC Sherriff’s A Fortnight in September a few years ago and was struck by the revelation of “This is precisely my upbringing: the socially anxious lower middle class.” I hadn’t previously encountered that exact background so carefully and generously delineated.

"On the rare occasions when frogs did emerge from the depths, I kept my distance. When the wind that ran through the grass caught in the belly of the well stone and echoed upwards, I did not draw closer to hear the song." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-well-o...

"I still walk the lane almost every day, though it must be 20 years since I set foot there. The lane was an open-air education, a state of being, an experience." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-lane

Need some uplift and meaning? Read Elizabeth Garner's piece in @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social on wells, liminal spaces, mazes, the beauty of story. www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-well-o... — and then head to www.theblackdentrust.org.uk

An extract from The Glass Cage, John Healy's long-awaited sequel to The Grass Arena, with an introduction from his editor, John Mitchinson: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-glass-...

My latest for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social - as ably edited by @sadianowshin.bsky.social -- a back-handed review also of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @derekthompson2.bsky.social 's #Abundance #DST #Democracy #DaylightSavings #Politics www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-free-w...

I was delighted to write about the circuit I walk every night and what it means to me for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/of-owning-...

"A sense of belonging can be derived through myriad things, but an ancestral connection to a place (however tenuous), that’s something particular, a little backward, maybe." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/of-owning-...

"They were like older brothers and sisters who had experienced the harsh realities of racism [...]. Artists merging their Caribbean roots with British culture to make something new. They were the vanguard of black poets and writers articulating and chanting the Black British experience."

Some bank holiday weekend listening: Patrick Galbraith chats to Lamorna Ash, author of Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, about why young people are churchgoing again Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0xfo... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

"Then home and up four flights of stairs to the rooftop to fling open the weather-cracked shutters of the writing room and take my place at a table looking out onto the vast panorama of the Rif, already shimmering in the sun." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/the-worlds...

"When suburbia features in British fiction, if it features at all, it is usually as somewhere that isn’t the countryside and isn’t the city, a location which only exists to be escaped from." @iammilliam.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/millions-u...

With Bible sales on the up, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social asks @lamornaash.bsky.social why young people are churchgoing again: www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/finding-re...

"He was selling store cattle, and I was enraptured by the syllables and the sound of his voice. I memorised a whole screed of that experience so I could set it down later on paper" www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/boyhood-me...

"There is an honesty to surgical museums, and though the Hunterian frames its displays as being educational, the voyeur can never truly be expunged." www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/carrot-cak...

Very grateful to @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social for letting me write this column, going into London museums and review the cake, the art, the *ambience* Here I am at the Hunterian Museum (warning: images of a surgical and/or carrot cake nature): www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/carrot-cak...

"I didn’t float above the drama watching the panic to resuscitate me. It wasn’t any of the things you hear. Any of the things you might expect. Any of the things you might hope." Read an exclusive extract from Helen Murray Taylor's forthcoming book, love lay down beside me and we wept:

I've only just now read @sadianowshin.bsky.social 's lovely introduction to my last article for @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social and I'm touched and think it rather enhances the experience -- read both together - and weep freely. www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/straining-...

ICYMI: Wingate Prize-winner Manya Wilkinson joined Erica Wagner on the latest episode of the Boundless podcast to discuss her piece on Yiddish influences on contemporary literature Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5W07... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...