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Karan Mahajan | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Karan Mahajan
‘Too often, a kind of travel writing – especially the novel set abroad in an exotic locale – feels like a way of allegorizing and escaping problems at home.’
Lagomorph
Alexander MacLeod
‘It is important to establish, before this begins, that I never thought of myself as an animal person.’
Lipari
Anthony Marra
‘Frank Laganà stood on the cliff suited in black, as straight as an exclamation point, poised to leap to his death once again.’
Mary O’Donoghue | Notes on Craft
Mary O’Donoghue
In this new series, we give authors a space to discuss the way they write – from technique and style to inspirations that inform their craft.
My Heart Hemmed In
Marie NDiaye
‘I stagger from the shock. I feel the corners of my mouth turning down. My jaw begins to tremble. Yes, yes, yes, I say to myself, get ahold of yourself.’
Naugahyde
Gordon Lish
A story of ageing infidelity: ‘He would seek to remember and she would seek to remember – each succeeding a little differently from the other.’
Nicole Krauss In Conversation
Nicole Krauss
‘The ancient stories we tell, as beautiful as they may be, also serve to shape our conventions about who we think we are or should be’
Olivia Laing | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Olivia Laing
‘Which bodies can go where might be the central question of our century.’
Past Perfect
Jason Larkin
‘Museums are not solely concerned with objects and our collective past, but also with ideas; notions of what the world is, or should be.’
