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Women’s Shadow in the American Western
Thirza Wakefield
‘The wild is no place for women—the film would seem to say.’
A Norwegian Nightmare
Alf Kjetil Walgermo
‘Could we somehow have avoided feeding the killer at our own breast?’
Maori War
Peter Walker
‘It would be hard to overstate the importance of genealogy in Maori society.’
We Went to Saigon
Tia Wallman
‘I thought that this must be the sort of plane that crashes. What were a few more dead, travelling to the city of the dead?’
Forbidden Games
Tia Wallman
‘We do not understand why, nor did we covet such long life, but here we are, our respective addictions and madness with us to the end.’
Jihad Redux
Declan Walsh
‘American patience snapped, and Washington took matters into its own hands.’
In Cyberspace: a love letter
Joanna Walsh
‘I’m at a cafe table. It doesn’t matter which country. I’ve been travelling for a long time. By train. Nine, ten different countries in thirty days, a couple of nights in each, maybe three at most.’
Hotel Haunting
Joanna Walsh
‘There was a time in my life when I lived in hotels. Around this time, the time I did not spend in hotels was time I did not live.’
Best Book of 1984: Amalgamemnon
Joanna Walsh
Joanna Walsh on why Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon is the best book of 1984.
Arithmetic on the Frontier
Declan Walsh
‘These days the tempest of Taliban violence ripping across the frontier has shaken Peshawar to its core.’
