‘Is it all right to smoke in this car?’
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‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
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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‘His poetry sliced through the gender binary and left it gasping on the floor.’
Katherine Rundell on John Donne.
‘Up on the light box on the wall are the scans of Gary’s brain, bone white standing out against smoked grey.’
John Niven remembers the last days of his brother, Gary.
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
‘Another spring, another sequel.’
A poem by Sasha Debevec-McKenney.
‘We live in an age that tends to depersonalize even people and is, in principle, averse to anthropomorphism.’
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