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Several Anecdotes About My Wife
Gary Shteyngart
‘Fully clothed, we looked like your average young Brooklyn couple, second-rate hipsters in retro garb’.
The Chelsea Affect
Arthur Miller
‘Despite parboiling myself in the shower a few times I began to like the hotel.’
What We Think of America
Ian Jack
‘…a fully-fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster…it knows only one language—bombs and death’ —Harold Pinter ‘…the only...
Jihadis
Pankaj Mishra
Peshawar is a mess. And last winter—the winter before September 11 became a significant date,...
Youth
J.M. Coetzee
‘There are two, perhaps three places in the world where life can be lived at its fullest intensity’
The Habit
Francis Spufford
‘IT can always tell when you’re reading somewhere in the house,’ my mother used to...
Have You Decided To Love Me Yet?
Blake Morrison
Crownhill, Plymouth 20.1.43 Dear Agnes (Gennie in future), Just a line to let you know...
Mecca
Ziauddin Sardar
One The lean man with a falcon-like face smiled from behind his huge desk. Underneath...
Resistance
Richard Sennett
‘For musicians, the sense of touch defines our physical experience of art’
Frank’s Place
Richard Williams
‘Marilyn Monroe spent a couple of nights at the Cal-Neva. Sinatra knew she was in a bad way.’
Baht ’At
Blake Morrison
‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’
Klever Kaff
Ian Jack
‘She was an extraordinary person, and an ordinary one.’
Ian Jack on the life of Kathleen Ferrier, the English contralto singer.
The Silence
Julian Barnes
‘Naturally the artist is misunderstood. That is normal, and after a while becomes familiar.’
Translating Caetano
John Ryle
‘The beat of the city was shot through with drumming patterns used to invoke them in the Saturday night ceremonies.’
La Mer
Nicholson Baker
‘I heard Debussy's side-slipping water-slopes, with cold spray blown off their crests’
Clara
Janice Galloway
‘She shifts, half in shadow. Whatever else, she's certainly a child. No one is with her.’
The First Sense
Robyn Davidson
‘Hearing, they say, is the first of the senses we develop in the womb.’
Mozart, Not
Alan Rusbridger
‘It has been said that playing a Fazioli is like driving a Ferrari after driving an Austin Maestro.’
White Lies
Amit Chaudhuri
‘The guru looked discomfited, as if he’d been caught doing something inappropriate. At the same time, he looked somewhat triumphant.’
American Folk
Greil Marcus
‘Smith placed murder ballads, explosions of religious ecstasy, moral warnings and hedonistic revels on the same plane of value and meaning’
Actus Tragicus
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
‘Bach devises an ingenious symmetrical structure to underpin in music the theological division between Law and Gospel. ’
Tantum Ergo
Craig Brown
‘If you were twenty in the summer of 1967, San Francisco was the only place to be.’
Cecilia
Andrew O’Hagan
‘Now that everyone lives as if in a movie, we begin to forget that once it was only special people who did.’
Medtner
Philip Pullman
‘It feels like being a child in a room where adults are having a deep and passionate conversation about important things’
I’m Like a Bird
Nick Hornby
‘Maybe disposability is a sign of pop music's maturity, a recognition of its own limitations, rather than the converse.’
Unfinished Sympathy
Julie Burchill
‘Pop songs have the power to make me behave badly, and for the first time in my life I want to do the right thing’
Dunkirk
Ian McEwan
‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’
Confessions of a Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater
Anonymous
‘A mind is a terrible thing to waste, and there is much being wasted when one deliberately chooses not to explore the ecstasy of its deeper horizons.’
Yangdol’s Journey
Manuel Bauer
‘Every year, more than 2,000 Tibetan refugees arrive in Nepal and India seeking asylum. Almost fifty per cent of them are children.’
Under the Surface
Andrew Brown
‘What I needed was to gaze into the surface, and, by gazing, to pass into another world, and breathe.’
