Issue 127

David Peace

‘At last, at last. His first steps, on Chinese soil.’

Andre Perry

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

Bernard Quiriny

‘I started working for the Bishop of San Julián in 1939, not long after the death of my husband.’

Zia Haider Rahman

‘My wife and I were both the children of Pakistanis, immigrants, Muslims, and we had faith that our union was of things greater than ourselves.’

Claudia Rankine

‘Certain moments send adrenaline to the heart, dry out the tongue’

Issue 129

Barbara Ras

‘nothing in those early evenings free / of care could have prepared you’

Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing

Tanya Rey

‘Desire was a slapping, bone-chilling wind the likes of which did not exist this close to the equator.’

Issue 129

Joseph Roth

Issue 128

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.’

Issue 128

Mary Ruefle

‘Red sadness never appears sad . . . it appears in flashes of passion, anger, fear, inspiration and courage, in dark unsellable visions; it is an upside down penny concealed beneath a tea cosy.’

Issue 129

Mary Ruefle

‘Life continually circled in cold inaccessible serenity around unhappy Earth’

Jim Ruland

‘It took me seven years of marriage to figure out that my wife is a hardcore Pearl Jam fan.’