After That, We Are Ignorant
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End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
The White Hole of Bombay
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’
The Joy of Difficulty
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’
Estonia, Out in the Country
Ingo Schulze
‘I didn’t believe my eyes, not even when I saw what was happening in front of them.’
17 Melbourne Road
Oliver Reynolds
‘A room at the top of the street / preserving his life in sunlight’
May We Be Forgiven
A.M. Homes
‘Now I understand the meaning of — it just happened. Or — it was an accident.’
Somewhere the Wave
Derek Mahon
‘a voice, not quite a voice, in the sea distance / listening to its own thin cetaceous whistle’
My Question for Myself
Gao Xingjian
‘Gao Xingjian, what have you never done that you would like to do?’ ‘Music. Inside...
Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss
Aleksandar Hemon
‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’
Richard Ford | Interview
Tim Adams & Richard Ford
‘It may be that writing fiction, imagining agencies, is my most trusted way into the unseen.’
Operation
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘I like to think now that he knew how much I liked him, from the beginning, and that we were both equal participants in the ritual.’
The Virgin of Esmeraldas
Nell Freudenberger
‘Everything was okay until Marisol accidentally broke a china cup with a rose on it that her stepmother had brought with her from DR.’
The Earth from the Air
Kitty Hauser
‘It takes another kind of eye, another viewpoint to reveal to us the truth about the world.’
Tree Thieves
Josh Weil
‘The jungle was all stillness, time kept only by the markings of his breath.’
In the Country
Tessa Hadley
‘She wondered if she would have the audacity, when the time came, to let herself go like that.’
Naples ’04
Roberto Saviano
‘It may seem strange, but the instant before death is marked by a sense of humiliation.’
Wheels of Progress
Gemini Wahhaj
‘Now Bangladesh survives only on aid, on other people feeding its people.’
The Crocodile Lover
Helon Habila
She said, ‘Over my dead body,’ and so they killed her. The soldiers carried her...
