Sigrid Rausing

Issue 129

Will Self

Striking the keys of the same typewriter that once sat under J.G. Ballard’s fingers, Will Self reimagines the legendary writer’s last days.

Anjan Sundaram

Dense forest and formless roads lead Anjan Sundaram to the sites of conflict in the Central African Republic in 2014.

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Joseph Roth

Issue 129

Andrea Stuart

‘My curiosity about lesbianism was an accomplice of my feminism: a path that allowed me to be sexual and free.’

Issue 129

Isabella Tree

‘I longed to know what she was thinking, what she did all day when she wasn’t performing rituals.’

Darcey Steinke

‘If pain is what makes others real to us, there was not another human being more real to me than my mother.’

Mona Simpson

‘A year later, still in third person, I’d taken five days off my character’s long wait. I’d moved to present tense, though, for more immediacy.’

Sigrid Rausing

David Treuer

‘When he stepped into the cage he was doing battle with a disease. The disease was the feeling of powerlessness that takes hold of even the most powerful.’

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Jess Row

‘I walk out of the theatre in a daze. I’ve glimpsed something. But a glimpse, as it turns out, is not enough.’

Andre Perry

‘I was stuck in Texas for a month. The days passed like slow-motion films.

Paulo Scott

‘He not only sees the World Cup as a ceasefire, but also as a series of sleights of hand that hide what’s really going on, political debauchery, spin and chicanery.’

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Rebecca Solnit

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