Caroline Crampton

Certainly Cal is trying to figure out his own ‘larger destiny’ and the role of his father’s work in it. I think it becomes quickly clear to him that his character doesn’t suit the place and time into which he was born. At the same time, the extreme sacrifices members of this community make for their livelihood drive them to romanticise their work.

Rebecca Solnit, Robert Becker & Tomoka Shibasaki

Caroline Crampton

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Joseph Roth

This was all a test.

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.’

Issue 137

Matilda Gustavsson

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.

Issue 137

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.’