The Schoolmaster’s Enemy
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Victim and Accused
Vidyan Ravinthiran
‘I’m curious about the refusal to countenance a connection between disparate experiences – a route by which empathy could travel.’
The Scarecrow
Diaa Jubaili & Chip Rossetti
‘Just at the time of the ceasefire between Iraq and Iran in 1988, an infantry platoon discovered that they were in a minefield.’
Translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti.
Abbandonati
Rory Gleeson
‘One day, 200 people’s X-rays showed they needed intensive care in order to survive.’
Al-Birr Islamic Trust Morgue, Greenwich Islamic Centre, April 2020
Gus Palmer & Poppy Sebag-Montefiore
‘Palmer’s portraits of Kafil Ahmed sit alongside those of other people risking their lives to take care of others.’
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
‘I’m not sure I even thought of him as a person, really. He was more just this – phenomenon.’
The Mezzanine, or: The Most Important Book About Nothing You’ll Ever Read
Joel Golby
‘It’s like taking an escalator trip into someone else’s mind for an hour, finding nothing of actual substance up there, and realising, as you retreat mournfully back into your own skull, that there’s nothing there, either.’
Death Takes the Lagoon
Ariel Saramandi
Ariel Saramandi on the sinking of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius.
In Conversation
Nadia Owusu & Caleb Azumah Nelson
‘Out of those roots, radical possibilities bloom. Future is created with each note.’
Interview
Sonia Shah
‘Non-native species have been blamed for being invasive the way that immigrants have been blamed for causing crime.’
In Conversation
Ellen Coon & Isabella Tree
‘The soil itself is filled with divine feminine energy. It’s alive, it’s pulsating.’
The Valley and the Stream
Danyl McLauchlan
‘Why does serotonin make you happy? How does it affect mood? What is mood? What is depression? How does any of this stuff work?’
Your Delicate Body
Caleb Azumah Nelson
‘And it wasn’t that day, or the day after, but sometime after that, you cried in your kitchen.’
In Conversation
Peter Ho Davies & Celeste Ng
‘Some of the wisest things friends have said to me have been over text! But it’s a different kind of thinking.’
Asylum Road
Olivia Sudjic
‘She’d blinked at me kindly and said it must be sad when your country no longer exists, then returned to pulverising her asparagus.’
Notes on Craft
Ho Sok Fong
‘While writing we recover memories, recover moods, and we start to interpret them.’
Notes on Craft
Natascha Bruce
‘The reader doesn’t need to have answers, but they do need to have theories.’
Night as It Falls
Jakuta Alikavazovic
‘There wasn’t much money. His father had been blunt: the classes were fine, the rest wasn’t.’
Bleak Midwinter
Catherine Taylor
‘In a sense, we had been waiting for the Ripper to visit for months, even years.’
Laundry Bills and Manifestos
Francesca Wade
‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
In Conversation
George Saunders & Natasha Randall
‘The way I write in general is basically just to move, in as a quiet-minded a manner as I can, toward what I feel as heat.’
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
‘What does it say about capitalism that we have money and want to spend it but we can’t find anything worth buying?’
Disorientation
Ian Williams
‘The moment in childhood when one realizes that one is Black is profoundly disorienting.’
Interview
Jay Bernard
An interview with the winner of the 2020 Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award.
Two Poems
sam sax
‘grief is an animal. we all know that. but which animal / exactly? what kingdom, what family, is it ever a fish?’
On Running
Larissa Pham
‘This makes more sense to me as a bodily practice: that desire to push one’s physical limits well beyond their natural bounds.’
Best Book of 1891: The Birds of Manitoba
Sylvia Legris
‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’
Best Book of 1978: Who Do You Think You Are?
Emily LaBarge
‘I have read them so often that sometimes I cannot remember what is mine and what is hers’
Best Book of 1992: The English Patient
Stephanie Sy-Quia
‘I had been in England, a semi-foreign country, for a few months, and when I was asked where I was from, I had no easy answer.’
Best Book of 2019: Better Never Than Late
Ukamaka Olisakwe
‘This book is about how to navigate the thorny valley of dead dreams. Some will survive the ordeal; others will tip over the edge, irredeemable.’
