Ivan Vladislavić

‘The corporate storyteller is having a bad day.’

Issue 92

Ivan Vladislavić

‘When a house has been alarmed, it becomes explosive.’

Issue 72

Teun Voeten

‘Sierra Leone is a small country on the coast of West Africa of roughly the same size and population as Scotland: 28,000 square miles, about five million people’.

Saskia Vogel

‘I realized that neither revenge nor compulsive storytelling would release me from this pain.’

Issue 124

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Issue 40

William T. Vollmann

‘The windbreakers of the passengers standing at the rail fluttered violently.’

Issue 107

William T. Vollmann

‘The All-American Canal was now dark black with phosphorescent streaks where the border’s eyes stained it with yellow tears.’

Issue 50

Tran Vu

'"So, our last night of socialism," Dzung said as he squatted down beside me. I pulled two cigarettes out of my pocket and handed one to him, but didn't reply.'

Ed Vulliamy

Ed Vulliamy on the nine best songs to listen to while you write.

Ocean Vuong

‘I’m too tired she said / to be this happy / & we laughed without / moving our hands’

Mirza Waheed

‘I first stepped into Bush House on a dreary November day in 2001. It was a trepid walk.’

Issue 99

Gemini Wahhaj

‘Now Bangladesh survives only on aid, on other people feeding its people.’

Binyavanga Wainaina

‘Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.’

Binyavanga Wainaina

‘My first name, Binyavanga, has always been a sort of barometer of public mood.’