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Peace Shall Destroy Many
Miriam Toews
‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on pacifism in Mennonite communities.
The Interpreters: Among the Brahmins of Benares
Aatish Taseer
‘That first sight of the city curled around the river goes through me like the breath of something old and known and familiar.’ Aatish Taseer revisits Varanasi.
Things I Never Told Her
Marian Ryan
‘I will lay down what I want, and I will get it, and prove I am not the kind of woman who is controlled by a man.’
The White Bloc
James Pogue
‘This election made clear that white people in this country have begun to vote how Southern whites always have: as a bloc.’
Labyrinth of the Heart
Mark Slouka
‘Every marriage is forged differently; some crack at a touch, others endure beyond belief, still others are tempered by events and time.’
Why We’re Post-Fact
Peter Pomerantsev
‘We are living in a ‘post-fact’ or ‘post-truth’ world. Not merely a world where politicians and media lie – they have always lied – but one where they don’t care whether they tell the truth or not.’
Putting Down Strangers
Adam Thorpe
‘Home, after all, is a continual plangent threnody in the often uninterpretable clamour of being an immigrant.’ Adam Thorpe on Brexit.
Republicans
James Pogue
‘This American says he’s heard of Cross but that he’s still just passing through.’ He laughed and formed the shape of a pistol with his right hand. ‘Well you heard that part, didn’t ya? That is one thing that will never change here.’
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘But Ireland is Ireland. It resists and relishes its own national images in equal measure.’
