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David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite
Teresa Toranska
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
Rebecca Solnit | Podcast
Rebecca Solnit & Yuka Igarashi
Rebecca Solnit discusses interweaving personal narratives with the lives of Mary Shelley and Che Guevara, paradoxes and Beyoncé.
Adam Thirlwell | Interview
Adam Thirlwell & Ted Hodgkinson
‘I suppose it’s that word hyper that I was after: I was trying to find a form for a kind of hyper energy or anxiety.’
Interview
Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen
‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’
Rajesh Parameswaran | Interview
Rajesh Parameswaran & Yuka Igarashi
‘I could tell you that love and violence are basic forces interwoven through all of nature and human affairs, and that’s why I mix the two.’
Ali Akbar Natiq | Interview
Ali Akbar Natiq & Ollie Brock
‘No character in my stories is an ideal person; they are mere human beings who can either be oppressors or oppressed, or sometimes both at the same time.’
Katherine Faw Morris | Interview
Katherine Faw Morris & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted her to be a pit bull.’
The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Mark Haddon | Podcast
Mark Haddon
‘Sean finds a log to use as a shooting gallery and sends Daniel off in search of targets.’
Adam Thirlwell on Michel Laub
Michel Laub & Adam Thirlwell
‘The thing I really love about this story is how it manages its matryoshka feat – to be at once a free floating meditation, leaping like some street cat from wall to wall, while also going deeper and deeper into a single theme.’
