Michael Symmons Roberts

‘The rich, tomato red that decorated most of my bedroom – curtains, lampshade, bedspread – and the pale, rinsed-out blue like a milky north-west sky that represented the other side.’

Issue 98

Jeremy Seabrook

‘The dead do not leave us alone.’

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan on the evolution of feminist judgments in India.

Caitlin Pearson

The Royal African Society takes a look back at the history of the Africa Writes festival, their annual celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora.

George Rosie

‘I’ve seen many images from the Lockerbie calamity since but none has stayed with me like the picture of Shannon’s pretty, smiling face.’

Mike Power

‘The Dark Web is a shadow internet, an unindexed, unseen and lawless corner of cyberspace.’

Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

David Seabrook

‘A seaside shelter in the middle of autumn – it seems a strange choice.’

Issue 56

Jeremy Seabrook

‘I was never a revolutionary, not really a Marxist.’

Issue 38

Jeremy Rifkin

‘Ray Kroc, one of the founders of the McDonald's hamburger chain, changed American eating habits as effectively as Henry Ford changed the way Americans travel.’

Nii Ayikwei Parkes

‘Ants became an obsession with her – she darted with them as they changed paths, watched them find their way around obstacles placed in their way.’

Nell Stevens

A production company is looking for contestants to participate in a new TV show, modelled on The Apprentice. They are seeking unpublished writers who have completed a novel.

Issue 127

Rebecca Solnit

‘It was like trying to go back to before the earthquake, to before knowledge.’

Issue 52

Georges Perec

‘Nine beers, two Tuborgs, four Guinnesses.’