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To Rio de Janeiro
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’
Other Women
Francine Prose
‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’
Letters to My Father, Now Dead
Teresa Pàmies
‘I was glad to see General Pavel at your funeral, Father.’
‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite
Teresa Toranska
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
After That, We Are Ignorant
Bilal Tanweer
‘He used to see things in his dreams and made them his policies. Yup, Americans loved his dreams because he was screwing the Soviets and Comrades in them.’
Cinema’s Invisible Art
Jeremy Sheldon
‘Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture.’
The Five Of Us
Lisa St Aubin de Terán
‘The freezing of the money signalled the beginning of virtual penury. It also signalled the beginning of our fame.’
The Mercies
Ann Patchett
‘Once you knew what God wanted from your life, you would have to be ten different kinds of fool to look the other way.’
The Atlantic Wall
Ianthe Ruthven
This chain of Nazi fortifications stretching from the Norwegian Arctic to France’s western frontier with Spain is one of Europe’s least acknowledged monuments.
