especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags

he dreams up a way to halt the extreme inflation of cultural capital and make the world a better place

The notion of paganism as a wild and primitive force has exerted a huge influence on folk horror

Sheena Wilson

A philosophical history for the postmetaphysical age

Fifty Sounds Diary especially the northern landscapes ofWhy Japan? In FIFTY SOUNDS, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age of 21, before eventually becoming a literary translator. From min min, the sound of air screaming, to jin jin, the sound of being touched for the very first time, from hi'sori, the sound of harbouring masochist tendencies, to mote mote, the sound of becoming a small town movie star,