ElasticWhen Alice is with Mathilde, her experience of the world shifts, as though Mathilde brings with her a force that charges everything around her: the park bench, the sticky linoleum floor of the supermarket, their interlocked hands, the buttons on a winter coat. But Mathilde is also mercurial and perfectly married to Alexander, and Alice is moving into a bigger flat with Simon who has just returned to her life. Alices precarious solution is to proceed

The issue also features photography by Hugh O'Conor

The source of worth

tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces

The elegiac melancholy of 'Cafe Alibi' and the free-wheeling imagistic felicity of 'Rue de Regard'

It begins with ‘Britain’

Never identified

Stranger at the Gate was originally published in 1956 by Faber and Faber

An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum

rejuvenated world

Carr's profiles and in-depth interviews with leading musicians and composers document the range of their ideas

A published poet and critic

This portrait of Cheshunt (including Waltham Cross) is by a noted local historian and illustrated with old postcards and photographs of a century ago