Grass Island
Guernsey was built to be on a postcard. Sand crocuses and sea thrift flowers carpet its long coastal dunes; thatched stone cottages with open shutters bask in its continental sun; yellow and pink bunting canopies its narrow, cobbled streets. It is a polite place. Road signs instruct vehicles to R
The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with Bernard O’Donoghue
Join The Isis for a conversation with the celebrated Irish poet and current Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, discussing the relevance of poetry in the modern world, the importance of globalism, and what changes might be made in the way we approach literature. Listen on Spotify: https://ope
The Isis Podcasts: In Conversation with William Boyd
Join The Isis for a conversation with the award-winning novelist, screenwriter and critic, discussing Boyd’s journey to becoming a writer, his years at Oxford, pulling off infamous hoaxes and his new novel Trio, published this October. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TzLm
Winner of the TT20 500 Word Competition
There was a magnet perching on the fridge which listed the moment of sunset for every single Shabbos of that year, but still she liked to weigh with her own hands its old and sore refrain. She had laid out the candle and the wine and five filmy pouches crammed with spicy cloves onto the […]
Bedtime Stories
“Sometimes I think I deserve bad things because I’m a bad person,” a girl murmurs to an ex-boyfriend. She is digitised and sports beautiful bangs, a puzzle of pixels dancing across the nation’s laptop screens three weeks into lockdown. But the tragedy of it rings true: falling in love with
Vogel’s Toast
Although I was born in Scotland, my memories begin in New Zealand. Looking back at my childhood, it’s akin to a Supercut of a coming of age movie: wharf-jumping, peering into dormant volcanoes, swimming with seals around the islands, mum picking me up early from school because there was a tornado
Mourning of the Fleeting Day
Time flies! Time flies! I say: take a drink. I know not the height of green heavens, nor the depth of yellow earth, only that the icy moon comes after the scorching sun, that they cook our mortal lives. Those who eat bears shall be fat, they that eat frogs shall be thin. To the […]
The Isis Podcasts: Investigative Journalism
The Isis talks investigative journalism with Rachel Oldroyd, managing editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Oliver Bullough, contributor to The Guardian and author of three books on Russian history and politics, and Jane Bradley, the U.K. Investigative Correspondent to the New York Times