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The Second Night is Ending
Mikail Eldin
‘This winter and this forest will leave you with a shiver in your heart, which will appear whenever you see a winter forest, even in pictures.’
Ninth and Race
Dan Burt
‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan-sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town.’
This July
Wiam El-Tamami
‘It felt as though time would fall off a cliff on Sunday. We jokingly called it The End of the World.’
World War II Has Never Ended
Michael W. Clune
‘I discovered Hitler the summer I turned twelve. I found him in the centre of a map in a computer game called Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. I destroyed him with a bomb.’
You Remember the Planes
Paul Auster
‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’
Héctor Abad | First Sentence
Héctor Abad
‘Ever since this happened to me, I haven’t really believed in free will.’
Cristhiano Aguiar | On Tour
Cristhiano Aguiar
‘Rabbits running across a campus and a beer named Hobgoblin: these are two of the topics noted in my small travel notebook.’
A Rationalist in the Jungle
Héctor Abad
‘A pale-faced, near-sighted urbanite like me is nothing less than handicapped in the heart of the jungle.’
Water Has No Enemy
Teju Cole
‘The city is a sea that can swallow you at any time, a monster that can lash out without warning, a hell of variables and uncertainties.’
Wudang Mountain
Catherine Chung
‘The danger with chasing fantasies is that the reality is often so different than the imagination.’
War Letters
António Lobo Antunes
‘I’m doing my best to survive all this, but sometimes I feel so homesick that words simply empty of meaning.’