Issue 125

Dave Heath

‘a sparrow fallen; / blackness of pain shimmering / hard in soft white light’

Issue 125

Yiyun Li

‘At what point had one’s life stopped belonging to one?’

Hari Kunzru

‘Writer: How do we get back? Stalker: Here, nobody returns.’

Issue 125

Ange Mlinko

‘I think of this when raising my eyes / to a filigreed cross in a sanctuary‘’

Issue 125

Patrick French

‘My antipathy to military culture started early and it wasn't helped by living in a garrison town.’

Yiyun Li

‘But for her, and perhaps for many, the solidity of an invented life is not trustworthy.’

Lindsey Hilsum & Rachael Allen

Lindsey Hilsum on Libya, her time in Rwanda and how countries can repair in the aftermath of war.

Frances Harrison

‘She exudes happiness. Somewhere along the line she understood that this was the best way to defeat the men who tortured her.’

Ange Mlinko

‘I rediscovered the efficacy of meter (or the ‘contrast between fixity and flux’) when I was stuck in a shark tunnel with my kids and was afraid I was coming down with a panic attack.’

Laurence Hamburger & Rachael Allen

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.’

Romesh Gunesekera & Ka Bradley

‘The past has never been as present as it is now in the world. But at the same time, all over the world, the determination to manipulate what we know has also never been stronger.’

Paul Auster

‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’

An essay by Paul Auster.

Rattawut Lapcharoensap & Yuka Igarashi

‘Sometimes all a story needs is an interesting, clearly defined confusion.’