Hugh Raffles lives in New York where he teaches at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of In Amazonia: A Natural History. ‘Cricket Fighting’, published in Granta 98, is taken from his latest book, The Illustrated Insectopedia, which was published by Pantheon in 2009.
‘On the way to the cricket fight, Mr Wu slipped us a piece of paper.’
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