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Issue 71

Shrinks

Edmund White

‘Self-doubt, which is a cousin to self-hatred, became my constant companion.’

Issue 56

The Last Post

Simon Winchester

‘It is the roar, however, that is most magnificent and daunting’

Issue 118

Holy Solitude

Kong Yalei

‘I always think, either as a reader or as a writer, one person – anyone – can struggle against this filthy world by entering into a world of literature.’

Issue 37

Waterway

Geoffrey Wolff

‘You would not guess looking into my son's bedroom at home that Blackwing’s ice box would have been scrubbed, but it had been scrubbed.’

Issue 57

Pariah

Viramma

‘All my children have been buried where they died’

Issue 94

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?’

Issue 126

American Vogue

Edmund White

‘Mumbling is proof of artistic verisimilitude.’

Issue 37

Field Burning

William Wharton

‘I thought after what had happened to us in the past twenty-four hours I’d never be scared to die again, but I am.’

Issue 58

Maori War

Peter Walker

‘It would be hard to overstate the importance of genealogy in Maori society.’

Issue 120

Petty Thief

A Yi

‘Stop what you’re doing, I’ve caught the guy! He says he knows kung fu.’

Issue 103

The House of Provisions

Lois Williams

‘A world of soft things stacked deeply.’

Issue 39

Soundings

Abraham Verghese

‘On the first day of June, 1972, I was taught how to percuss the body.’

Issue 64

Naples is Closed

Barry Unsworth

‘Naples had always been high on the list of places I wanted to visit‘.

Issue 9

New York

James Wolcott

‘Shiny and bright and compact, 'Heartburn’ whirrs along, not so much a novel as an appliance - an appliance whose inner workings are on the fritz.’

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