Anne Carson

‘Funny to end up here you may think, in this line of work, did I back into it, well more or less.’

Clara Becker, Stuart Evers & Jethro Soutar

‘Football is a game; it’s not real life. But in a continent as illogical as Latin America, the lines blur.’

Issue 127

Daisuke Yokota

‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’

Juan Pablo Villalobos

‘I was reassured to see that my hotel does not resemble the one in The Shining.’

Issue 127

Toh EnJoe

‘Which is scarier: that the past could actually change or that you could just think it did?’

Aleksi Pöyry & Francisco Vilhena

‘What is often particular to Finnish Weird is that it portrays a realistic, palpable setting which gradually starts to acquire elements of fantasy.’

Issue 126

Yuri Kozyrev & Nathan Thornburgh

‘‘Abkhaz democracy reminds me a lot of America,’ an Abkhaz journalist tells me over coffee. ‘It’s a democracy of heavily armed people.’’

Issue 129

Joseph Roth

Aracelis Girmay

‘For me, it happens most with early 90s R&B.’

Issue 127

Yumiko Utsu

‘How long has it been since Noah and his passengers set off in their vessel?’

Louise Erdrich

‘We live in these places out of necessity, lucky to have them out of the terrible explosion of humanity.’

Issue 126

Norman Rush

‘I nursed a precocious rage at the stratagems society was employing to keep me from seeing naked women.’

Brian Hart

‘The road pleasantly gained and lost elevation, flood gauges in dry washes and scraggy hilltops, corners that begged for two wheels not four.’

Hoa Nguyen

‘I wrote ‘valley’ when I meant ‘longing’ / Your laugh a river A trout kind of green.’