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Ann Beattie | First Sentence
Ann Beattie
‘Several times I’ve wanted to title something one thing, but have realized or been persuaded it isn’t a good idea.’
Annawadi
Katherine Boo
In 2007 Katherine Boo travelled to Annawadi – a slum built on Mumbai Airport land – to document the lives of the families living there.
Antediluvian
John Biguenet
‘To the inexperienced, hurricane stories always sound like exaggerations.’
Anthony Bailey | A London View
Anthony Bailey
I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'
Anwar Gets Everything
Tahmima Anam
‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’
Appamma in London
Anuk Arudpragasam
An excerpt from A Passage North, longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Apparition
Mark Doty
‘an orange plastic basket of compost / down from the top of the garden – sweet dark, / fibrous rot, promising’
Aquino, Marcos and the White House
Mark Malloch Brown
‘Marcos had, in effect, trapped Washington into appearing to endorse a snap election, and the administration - both State Department and White House - was forced to redefine its position.’
Arbos
Teju Cole
‘I made many pictures of such trees, and each time, some analogy to art would impress itself on me, the more so because of the universally locked museum doors.’
Assault by Water
Tim Binding
‘Having come here for a purpose, to trace the fault line of his own history, he searches for the year that saw its inception.’
