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Stones and Artichokes

Nicole Krauss

‘As we get older, the world grows to fit our fear of death.’

Bad Seeds

Masatsugu Ono

‘Evil, she told herself. That was the name of the flower.’

Murderer in the Family (Part Two)

Rian Malan

‘It's not just their skins that are white; their minds are white, too. They are generic whites with western values.’

God and Me

Blake Morrison

‘My hopes weren’t high, even to begin with, so I felt no bitterness when He didn’t reveal Himself’

Sticky Fingers

Arun Kolatkar

‘Selecting the right kind of a tomato was crucial for the scam to work.’

Looking for the Rozziner

Colum McCann

‘Dublin in the mid­-1970s. Nine years old.’

Lessons from a Hustler

Peter Mountford

‘With Buck, pool was clearly an intellectual exercise and he was scarily cool at the table.’

Letter from Gaza

Hisham Matar

‘It is difficult not to see the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani as an attempt to obliterate the Palestinian narrative.’

Vanishing Virgil

Maaza Mengiste

‘We want to believe that we will die with dignity; that death is a confrontation and the battle is somewhat fair.’

Lily

Ian McEwan

‘He'll be ruthless with himself in his pursuit of boundless health to avoid his mother's fate: Mental death.’

Lover

Joyce Carol Oates

‘You won't know me, won't see my face. Unless you see my face. And then it will be too late.’

House Fire

Yiyun Li

‘The six friends declared war against love outside marriage.’

Dunkirk

Ian McEwan

‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’

From Dream to Dream

Yiyun Li

‘At what point had one’s life stopped belonging to one?’