Radical Attention

Radical Attentionby Julia Bell published 17 September 2026 New edition with a foreword by Grace Blakeley and an afterword by the author In recent years tech companies have turned attention into a commodity, a resource to be mined and sold. The terms of the deal appear simple: in exchange for our attention we receive information, entertainment, and convenience. But what are the hidden costs? And what happens to our inner lives when we lose the ability to decide how we

When a mother’s unusual health condition

he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body

’ – The Guardian

Both an essay on the comforting fantasy of lie detection and a kind of extended stress test on the boundary between literary forms

The Believer

Leda is lost

I suspect few of us will emerge unchanged

At the dawn of the nineteenth century

to ask what new forms haunting might take

the ghosts in our machines

along with the address we should send the certificate to (and then

Sarah Brouillette