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Bad Land
Jonathan Raban
‘What the bottom line always comes to is the old two a.m. cry: We can’t go on living like this.’
Person of the Year
Roy Robins
‘This conflation of hard-nosed realism and bright-eyed idealism has confused the aims of the award.’
Six Snapshots of Partition
John Siddique
‘He hands me my inheritance: a box of conversations. Fragments of memory, blank spaces, things which there are no words for.’
Polling in New York City
Owen Sheers
‘It’s been said more than once during this US presidential campaign that the rest of the world should be allowed a vote as well.’
Chatwin Revisited
Paul Theroux
‘He was such a darter he seldom stayed still long enough for anyone to sum him up.’
Dutch Harbor Nights
Jim Ruland
‘When one of the fishermen starts belting out ‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Out Tonight’, it feels like a prophecy come to life.’
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
Breach Candy
Samanth Subramanian
‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’