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The Seventh Man

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George Saunders In Conversation | Podcast

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In the Movie Bunker

Lutz Seiler

‘On 6 April 1981, I walked into the District Conscription Office, thereby obeying the very first command of my time as a soldier.’

Memoir from Lutz Seiler, translated by Martyn Crucefix.

Where the Dragons Live

Clemens Meyer

‘Then they ask me if I love Germany, if I’d show my pussy to dirty Turks and Yugos, all that kind of stuff. It hurts.’

Fiction from Clemens Meyer, translated by Katy Derbyshire.

The Murder of Halit Yozgat

‘The National Socialist Underground murders were a series of racist attacks perpetrated throughout Germany between 2000 and 2007.’

Forensic Architecture and the murder of Halit Yozgat.

A Very German Coup

Jan Wilm

‘The suspected ringleader was a 71-year-old real-estate developer with an engineering degree.’

Jan Wilm on an attempted coup in 2022.

Model Country

Shida Bazyar

‘Are you talking as Laleh now, or as the Islamic Republic of Iran? I don’t say anything.’

Fiction by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin.

How Lustig is It

Peter Kuras

‘Germans don’t really have a word for ‘funny’, which seems appropriate enough.’

Peter Kuras on German humour.

Out of Germany

Michael Hofmann

‘It is pleasant – to me, confusingly so.’

Michael Hofmann on returning to Germany.

Have a Good Trip with Trabant

Martin Roemers & Durs Grünbein

‘Question: ‘What do a Trabant and a condom have in common?’ Answer: ‘Both decrease the pleasure of the ride.’’

Durs Grünbein introduces photography by Martin Roemers.

Notebook 2021

Peter Handke

‘‘Order is half of life’ – and the other half? – You get one guess.’

Extracts from Peter Handke’s notebook, translated by Peter Kuras.

Reunified German Images

Fredric Jameson

‘Political or not, the element Rauch works in is certainly what we call History.’

Fredric Jameson on the paintings of Neo Rauch.

SO WHAT

Frederick Seidel

‘Poetry is a disgrace on a warm spring day in March. You look at the sky with unconditional love.’

Poetry by Frederick Seidel.

Wings of Red

James W. Jennings

‘Every time you could have died you kind of do.’

An extract from Wings of Red by James. W. Jennings.

Israel in 600 Words or Less

Etgar Keret

‘My mind contains a lot of good answers to bad questions’

Etgar Keret on the impossibility of representing a nation.

His Idylls at Happy Grove

Ishion Hutchinson

'the sand trenches, where the anonymous / sprung up a permanent humility.'

Poetry from Ishion Hutchinson

Ed’s Things

Robert Glück

‘The past is no longer behind me but in front.’

An extract from About Ed by Robert Glück.

Eley Williams

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘Certainly this kind of thing just happened sometimes – it was a glitch, an unfortunate error, and could happen to anyone.’

– Rostrum

Olivia Sudjic

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘It dawned on her, the fact sliding ice-cold into her body; now that she had crossed the border into her forties, Alma herself was no longer eligible for the scheme.’

– The Termite Queen

Saba Sams

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’

– Gunk

Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘She rings a tiny cymbal over your body. She says, The experience is finished now.’

– Best Last Minute Spa Deal for Under £40

K Patrick

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’

– Mrs S

Derek Owusu

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I don’t remember his face, nor him as a whole.’

– Kweku

Thomas Morris

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘If Wales win tonight, everything will turn out okay.’

– Wales

Anna Metcalfe

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘He was grumpy in a way that I enjoyed. It reassured me that he was easily displeased – he was discerning, I thought.’

– Circles

Sophie Mackintosh

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’

– Theories of Care

Isabella Hammad

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I register that phrase with pleasure, my brother.’

– A Note in the Margin

Camilla Grudova

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘We were sent to Wakeley Boarding School aged eight for Year Five and stayed on until Year Twenty.’

– Ivor

Lauren Aimee Curtis

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘The other islands in the archipelago had their active volcanoes; now we had the men.’

– Strangers at the Port

Tom Crewe

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’

– The Room Service Waiter

Eliza Clark

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I could hear the sea, and I could hear my own name.’

– She's Always Hungry

Eleanor Catton

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I knew that Dominic had cheated on me. I couldn’t tell you when, or who, or how many times, but I was certain that he had.’

– Doubtful Sound

Natasha Brown

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘She boils her sentences down to high-sucrose sweeties and calibrates her tone for maximum engagement.’

– Universality

Sara Baume

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘She has been ten for a month and she does not like it. She carries the weight of her extra digit like a chain-mail vest.’

– The Hair Baby

Jennifer Atkins

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘I didn’t think she was happy; I thought she was in love, but I didn’t know what that told me, if it told me anything.’

– A Certain King

Graeme Armstrong

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘There’s this paradoxical nostalgia where even though yi suffered, yi miss it.’

– The Cloud Factory

Sarah Bernstein

Best of Young British Novelists 2023

‘What needs explaining was that, and it was a funny thing, a very funny thing, I did not speak the language.’

– 'A Dying Tongue'

The Solution is Within

Évelyne Trouillot

‘How are we living? Every morning we wake up and wonder what happened last night.’

Évelyne Trouillot on the crisis in Haiti.

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