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Claire Messud

Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of six works of fiction including her most recent novel, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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Art & Photography | Issue 134 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 134 padlock

Kobane: The Aftermath

Lorenzo Meloni & Claire Messud

‘If black is the colour of the Islamic State, then grey is the colour of destruction.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 118 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 118 padlock

The Road to Damascus

Claire Messud

‘How can it be, that all that is in us dies with us?’

Fiction | Issue 118 padlock
Fiction | Issue 118 padlock

Adults

Claire Messud

‘Those summer evenings were all alike.’

Fiction | Issue 118
Fiction | Issue 118

The Professor’s History

Claire Messud

‘The call of the muezzin reached his ears only as a muffled wail, the keeper of ritual and the passage of time.’

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