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The Exorcism of Doctor Escudero
Gabi Martínez
‘His body was like a rock. It wasn’t his. It was like he was possessed.’
Travel Notes About Death
Susana Moreira Marques
‘The first notes I take are about a man who was born, grew up, worked, was married, had a daughter, grew old, and died in the same village.’
About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her
Mieko Kawakami
‘If I were to forget, then it would be the same as it never having existed at all.’
Item Girls
Kuzhali Manickavel
‘I have heard the item girls singing each to each. / I do not think they will sing to me.’
Lagos Must Prosper
Alexis Okeowo
21 million people, $91 billion GDP, an ambitious governor whose term is up: Alexis Okeowo on the megacity of Lagos
Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
Gandhi the Londoner
Sam Miller
‘On 29 September 1888, an Indian teenager with a mild case of ringworm and a fine head of hair sailed into the Thames Estuary.’ Sam Miller on Ghandi's time in London.
To Detroit
Benjamin Markovits
‘Things started going wrong at my ten-year college reunion – or I guess I mean that I realized how wrong they had gone.’