Matian
Matian is Armenian for "book." This is where we go deeper — long reads, essays, investigations. The pieces that take time to write and deserve time to read. Come here when you are not in a hurry.
A Note from the Editor
Our Monthly Read for April: Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
Jerusalem is alive on the page and on the stage. It is funny, tragic, fantastically wild — and the best reminder that reading plays is not only for school.
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Matian, Issue 01
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro's quiet masterpiece on duty, regret and the life unlived. Our inaugural pick.
Matian, Issue 02
Outline
Rachel Cusk dismantles the novel and rebuilds it as pure listening. Unsettling, brilliant.
Matian, Issue 03
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin's utopian thought experiment — on freedom, ownership and what we owe each other.
Matian, Issue 04
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata's deadpan portrait of a woman who refuses to want what she is supposed to want.
Matian, Issue 05
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson's letter from a dying father to a son too young to remember him. Devastating and tender.
Matian, Issue 06
The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector at her most uncompromising — a woman, a cockroach and an encounter with the absolute.