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Ange Mlinko | First Sentence
Ange Mlinko
‘I rediscovered the efficacy of meter (or the ‘contrast between fixity and flux’) when I was stuck in a shark tunnel with my kids and was afraid I was coming down with a panic attack.’
Animals
Michel Laub
‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’
Anlong Veng | Dispatches
Elena Lesley
‘There are no words to say how angry I am. I want to know why they killed their own people. I want answers.’
Anthony Marra | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Anthony Marra
‘The terrain of literature is this space where you can pose these paradoxes of personal and political ethics’
Aphrodisiacs I Have Known
Norman Lewis
‘In the winter of 1957, I went to Liberia for the New Yorker.’
Arrival
Albino Ochero-Okello
‘As I stood in front of the immigration officer, I was already worrying about my answers to the questions he might ask’.
Aspirers
Pankaj Mishra
‘Bollywood is part of what our culture has become. We are lying to ourselves all the time.’
At the Edge of Night
Friedo Lampe
An excerpt from Friedo Lampe’s At the Edge of Night, translated from the German by Simon Beattie.
