Snigdha Poonam

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Javier Zamora

Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’

Jennifer Kabat

‘In Hollin Hills, we believed our flatware could change the world.’ Jennifer Kabat on the intersection of modernist architecture and espionage.

Sigrid Rausing

‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’

Miriam Toews

‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’

Matilda Gustavsson

Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold

‘For those caught beneath its thrum, there’s no comfort that the drone, and whoever is at its helm in America, is only targeting the bad guys.’ Eliza Griswold introduces Tomas van Houtryve's unsettling photo-essay taken by drones coming close to civilian life in the manner of the drones currently deployed in Afghanistan.

Aatish Taseer

‘That first sight of the city curled around the river goes through me like the breath of something old and known and familiar. The city has been destroyed many times in the last thousand years, no less by development authorities than by conquerors. And yet it is so perfect an articulation of the culture that built it that the overlay of centuries has not muffled its voice.’ Aatish Taseer revisits Varanasi.

Ivan Chistyakov

‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’

Françoise Huguier & A.M. Homes

‘Blow the candle out, taste the darkness and come back changed.’

Sarah Gerard

‘In Amway, there’s no such thing as contentment.’

Emmanuel Carrère & Darcy Padilla

‘Even today, she still speaks with emotion about Dorian, the transsexual so proud of her breasts, Diane, who weighed only sixty-five pounds, and Steven, who was so frightened of dying alone that Darcy wished she could promise to be with him when the time came.’ Emmanuel Carrèrre on addiction and poverty in an forgotten America.

Marian Ryan

‘I will lay down what I want, and I will get it, and prove I am not the kind of woman who is controlled by a man.’

Melissa Febos

‘In a country whose government we do not trust, who do we need more than writers and teachers? And what is more powerful than an inspired youth?’

Linda H. Davis

‘I had become the kind of parent I never wanted to be.’

James Pogue

‘This election made clear that white people in this country have begun to vote how Southern whites always have: as a bloc.’

Leslie Jamison

‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’

Eli Goldstone

‘I could do nothing but lie there, locked inside my body.’

Lily Dunn

Lily Dunn on her father’s losing battle with alcoholism.

Yiyun Li

‘If you were like me, you would know the obsession of the compulsive reader: every street sign; every bottle label’

Mark Slouka

‘Every marriage is forged differently; some crack at a touch, others endure beyond belief, still others are tempered by events and time.’

Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett on the Hawe family murder-suicide, and what the Irish media’s coverage tells us about the nation’s prejudices.

Andrea Stuart

‘I can easily recall my first brush with porn’

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

‘The poor hated the poor, natives hated outsiders, settled migrants hated new incomers, the North hated the South, non-Londoners hated London.’

Julia Rochester

‘Europe, for me, meant family.’

Melissa Febos

‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’

Janice Galloway

‘I admit the sneaking feeling, just now and then, that those who govern us think we’re the problem.’

Madeleine Bunting

‘Brexit demonstrates one of England’s most trusted strategies of power: deliberate forgetfulness.’

Julian Baggini

‘Whether or not you think 23 June was a great day for Britain and Europe, it was a very bad one for freedom.’

Xiaolu Guo

‘I had lost my native country, now I was going to lose a continent.’

Peter Pomerantsev

‘We are living in a ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth’ world. Not merely a world where politicians and media lie – they have always lied – but one where they don’t care whether they tell the truth or not.’

Adam Thorpe

‘Home, after all, is a continual plangent threnody in the often uninterpretable clamour of being an immigrant.’ Adam Thorpe on Brexit.