‘The end of the war in the Pacific came just before I left school.’
The end of the war in the Pacific came just before I left school. My matriculation grades were not good enough for an arts course at Sydney University, so my mother said that while I thought about whether to re-sit some subjects, I had to go to work. Consolidated Press, owned by Sir Frank Packer, fa…
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘The CIA had become concerned about Soviet influence in India in the early 1960s.’
‘As every soldier and every journalist who has ever covered a war knows – sleeping and eating are the most important things.’
Lindsey Hilsum writes home from Ukraine.
A journalist receives a troubling call about a friend in this excerpt from Madeleine Bunting’s new novel Ceremony of Innocence.
‘The book is in my studio and I am about to go out and buy fresh glue’.
‘Pictures from some cities in Latin America: the burning in front of the family home of the dead who are not collected by the state.’
‘Granta editor John Freeman interviews Daniel Alarcón about book piracy in Peru.’
