Berfrois

Careerist

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

‘The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare’ by G. K. Chesterton
Short story: ‘Gavin Highly’ by Janet Frame
Video game: Small Worlds
Poem: Grandfather Says by Ai
Book excerpt: ‘Insectopedia’ by Hugh Raffles
Animated video: The Search for Lost Lives read by the poet James Tate