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‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
‘Is it all right to smoke in this car?’
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‘There was really no point in going to a bomb shelter just because the siren sounded. Our hotel was unlikely to be a target.’
Lindsey Hilsum writes letters home from Ukraine.
‘The recipe is a text that can produce spattering because it was spattering before it was language.’
Rebecca May Johnson on recipes, repetition and intimacy.
‘To make a subject of the very same entity I am a part of, to be outside and within it.’
Thomas Duffield photographs his family.
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A story by Dizz Tate.
‘We were ourselves migrating birds; in a sense, refugees, displaced persons, without a home or a home town.’
Volodymyr Rafeyenko (tr. Sasha Dugdale) on the war in Ukraine.
Kamran Nazeer is a contributing editor at Prospect. Born of Pakistani parents, he has lived in New York, Islamabad and Glasgow. His first book is Send In the Idiots: Or How We Grew to Understand the World (Bloomsbury).
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