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Julie’s Life
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.
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Interview: Oliverio Coelho
Oliverio Coelho & Kit Maude
‘I know what you're thinking: I'm indulging in cut-price philosophy to avoid the question’
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Brexit Win
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.’
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Africa’s Future Has No Space for Stupid Black Men
Pwaangulongii Dauod
‘The night was full of energy. The kind of energy that Africa needs to reinvent itself.’
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Paula Bohince & Jane Mead in Conversation
Paula Bohince & Jane Mead
‘It seemed that recording her sickness was cold and vulgar, that if ever I should be a participant and not an observer, this was the time.’
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A Visit to the Zoo
Colm Tóibín
‘The two chameleons in a glass case appeared to interest all of them, Heinrich thought, because of their beauty and their stillness. They looked like a pale painting.’
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A Thousand Splendid Stuns
Morwari Zafar
‘More important than anything else that fateful year was the life-defining transcendence of Peter Gabriel.’
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In Conversation: Pankaj Mishra and Aman Sethi
Pankaj Mishra & Aman Sethi
‘It is India’s turn to undergo social traumas that other countries have suffered in their pursuit of wealth and power.’
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Another Way of Seeing
Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad
A fresh look at an Indian village.
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The Wrong Square
Neel Mukherjee
‘Something as fundamental to intelligence as counting was eluding him.’
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Cairo: September 2014
Wiam El-Tamami
‘Over the past few months, the government has been ad-libbing the time.’
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The Abyss
Rebekah Frumkin
‘I bit into my mango bar to prevent myself from speaking.’
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The Chronicle of the Wrinkled-Face Sheikh
Salman Natour & Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani
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Tourist
Andrea Stuart
‘My curiosity about lesbianism was an accomplice of my feminism: a path that allowed me to be sexual and free.’
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The Magic Box
Olivia Laing
An essay on David Wojnarowicz's work, life and archives.
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A Dynasty of Album Cover Art
Lemi Ghariokwu
‘The music is as powerful as it gets and beneath his knife-edge, cutting sarcasm, Fela’s voice rages’
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That Wind Blowing through the Plaza
Laura Erber
‘I didn’t go for the dental treatment, or for the gypsy dancing’
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Before the Fall
J.P. Cuenca
‘Is it possible to run away without being a coward?’
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The Provincials
Daniel Alarcón
‘I'd been out of the Conservatory for about a year when my great-uncle Raúl died.’
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In a Land of Silence
Janine di Giovanni
‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’
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Wrestling with Translation
Jeffrey Yang
‘As I embarked on my adventure I immediately started to feel that old hatred for simplified Chinese characters.’
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After the Affair
Maud Newton & Alexander Chee
‘Reading it, I thought, this must be what it was like to be his lover. To wait and wait for him to eventually say something to you, while he talked about everything else.’
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‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
