A few years ago, I wrote an article in which I confessed, in rather jocular fashion, to a fear of flying, even though – with no little show of courage – I board a plane about twenty times a year. I’m pleased to say that I now feel much more confident during flights, perhaps because I’ve grow…
Airships
Javier Marías
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
‘We live in an age that tends to depersonalize even people and is, in principle, averse to anthropomorphism.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
Javier Marías
Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. Translated into thirty-seven languages, his books have sold five and a half million copies worldwide. A Heart So White (Harvill/New Directions) was awarded the Dublin IMPAC Award as the best novel published in English in 1996. His most recent novel is Poison, Shadow and Farewell the final in a trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow. Marías’s op-ed pieces appear in the New York Times and he is a regular contributor to The Believer and The Threepenny Review. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Madrid.
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