Issue 68

W.G. Sebald

‘In Vienna I visited none of the sights and spoke not a word to a soul’.

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.’

Susan Sontag

‘The more that places, customs, the circumstances of adventures are changed, the more we see that we amidst them are unchanging.’

Jessica Thummel

‘John Wayne Durler had always needed something to run from.’

Don Paterson

‘One, perhaps his psalter, / the other, a manuscript, or a portable altar.’

Issue 27

Teresa Pàmies

‘I was glad to see General Pavel at your funeral, Father.’

Issue 76

Philip Pullman

‘It feels like being a child in a room where adults are having a deep and passionate conversation about important things’

Issue 20

Salman Rushdie

‘Forested mesas flanked the road to Matagalpa; ahead, the multiform mountains, conical, twisted, sinuous, closed the horizon.’

Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

Issue 129

Mary Ruefle

‘Life continually circled in cold inaccessible serenity around unhappy Earth’

Aman Sethi

‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’

Gonçalo M. Tavares

‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’

Issue 17

Teresa Toranska

‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’

Issue 1

Ronald Sukenick

‘when rising expectations hit the upcoming decline hell was going to break loose it was already starting to break loose’