Issue 40

André Brink

‘What is the future of Afrikaners in South Africa?’

Emily Critchley

‘The piano eyes me / from its corner – / colluding with the past’

Rachel Cusk

‘It was right after he was born that I started looking at paintings.’

Issue 113

Oliverio Coelho

‘Iván tried not to keep still.’

Issue 132

Oliver Bullough

‘A woman asked the steward behind the registration desk if our flight to Moscow was domestic or international. “We are still working on that,” the man answered.’

Rachel Cusk

‘The gears of life had gone into reverse.’

Issue 72

Robyn Davidson

’Shortly after its publication in 1980 I was surprised to learn that I had written a travel book’.

Issue 98

Javier Cercas

‘My name is Javier Cercas, just like you.’

Issue 500

René Belletto

Issue 59

René Belletto

‘Having told his story, the thief had said goodbye to Agnès, regretfully, she thought’.

Alexander Chee

‘He left for the US while his father was away on business so he couldn’t stop him.’

Diana Athill

‘She thought of herself as a rational woman, but while she could sleep alone in an empty house for night after night without worrying, there were other nights when her nerves twitched like a rabbit's at the least sound.’

Jim Crace

‘Leonard Lessing does not dream of Maxie Lemon, Maxim Lermontov, the hostage­-taker.’

Issue 14

William Boyd

‘From the small terrace at Cherry's villa there is a perfect view of Villefranche and its bay, edged by the bright beads of the harbour lights and headlamps of cars on the coast road.’