Héctor Abad Faciolince

‘However, there are countries with an almost secret culinary culture, unknown to the immense majority of the world.’

Héctor Abad Faciolince

‘The note stated that it was by Borges, and I believed that, or at least I wanted to believe it.’

Jenni Fagan

Best of Young British Novelist Jenni Fagan selects five songs that she loves to write to.

Issue 124

Sonia Faleiro

Issue 49

Nuruddin Farah

‘That's what money does to one: makes one suspicious.’

Melissa Febos

‘In a country whose government we do not trust, who do we need more than writers and teachers? And what is more powerful than an inspired youth?’

Melissa Febos

‘They knelt at my feet. They crawled naked across gleaming wooden floors.’

Melissa Febos

‘Influences imprint themselves on our consciousness as light does a photograph, or trauma the psyche’

Issue 149

Lara Feigel

‘Is that what family is for? Helping you to understand what formed you?’

Issue 13

James Fenton

‘When I first saw the draft of the piece which follows, I realized that the book he was writing had reached an essential stage of articulacy.’

Issue 10

James Fenton

‘The buildings were full of surprises. In one, surrounded by winking lights, the last abbot was lying in his coffin. He had died a year before, and it would be another two years before he was cremated.’

Issue 100

James Fenton

‘Your clavichord breathes as sweetly as your heart.’

Issue 24

James Fenton

‘Some people said they were not ‘with’ the students. They were not in favour of the use of arms. But they were of one voice in saying that the students were their sons, and that if the army came in the students would be put to death. That was why they kept saying: “Tell the truth about us.”’

Issue 22

James Fenton

‘Sotero Llamas was proud of the price on his head.’