SCENE 4 Dear Kevin Spacey. This is not a sustainable city; it doesn’t care about the future much. It … More
Category: Journal
Ustica by Niki Ford
Burnt island, rocks black — a circle of salt wet beats against the monk’s plough. (But their dark robes dragged … More
issue no.2: suburb
The suburb issue of Failed States includes an original fiction by Wayne Koestenbaum; special projects on the Charles Atlas film … More
A list of films shot on Fire Island, New York by Sam Ashby
Day Dreams aka Cocktails (Richard Fontaine, 1950) A Day at Fire Island (Young Physique, 1960) Pose Please (Young Physique, 1960) … More
Matt Connors
In preparation for a forthcoming studio move, and before leaving for a two week stay in coastal Maine, I started … More
Traffic Island by Jeremy Atherton Lin
My earliest memory is of an island in winter, its formidable mountain blanketed with snow. We descended on plastic saucers, … More
Doris Ho-Kane
“We were influenced by what was happening in the Black and Puerto Rican communities. Why not us? Who are we? … More
Olivia Laing
The lido is an island state, I’ve just decreed that. I’ve got a pass but you can have one too. … More
Bryony Quinn
Micronesian stick charts were used by seafarers to cross great distances of water where land sat below the horizon, frequently … More
On the subject of creating a film on a remote island by Joseph Curran
Our journey began with a six day sea voyage from Cape Town. Amongst us on the ship there was a … More
