Issue 91

Geoff Dyer

‘Now that we were out of danger it seemed possible that there had never been any danger.’

Issue 108

Tony D’Souza

‘This is why you don’t go to the West Side, I told myself.’

Kazushige Abe

‘The crucial thing was to cool the baby off, bring the fever down.’

Issue 116

Nadeem Aslam

‘It is as though the metal itself is bleeding.’

Christopher Coake

‘Everything, even the ground under his feet, felt impermanent.’

Issue 65

Ferdinand Dennis

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.’

Issue 6

Jurek Becker

‘That afternoon a different soldier is standing at the gate. He calls out something that sounds dangerous.’

Chloe Aridjis

‘Yet the little white disks with a dent down the middle are no panacea; whenever I take one of these thought guillotines I feel trapped in a grey zone’.

Issue 128

Anthony Doerr

‘It has to be love, doesn’t it? In however many of its infinite permutations?’

George Butler

George Butler’s sketches from a journey across west Africa.

Issue 85

Anne Enright

‘As soon as I walked in, I knew he wanted to touch it.’

Issue 110

Dave Eggers

Gillian Clarke

‘Poetry must always find new ways to sing, must be fresh, must surprise, must take us by the heart with its song, its imagery, its syntax. But it can still be simple, grammatical, and speak plain English.’