Jennifer Kabat

‘In Hollin Hills, we believed our flatware could change the world.’ Jennifer Kabat on the intersection of modernist architecture and espionage.

Sigrid Rausing

‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’

Miriam Toews

‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on pacifism in Mennonite communities.

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Matilda Gustavsson

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Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

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Feng Sun Chen

‘Every day, I see a monstrosity in the kissing hole.’

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Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

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Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold

‘For those caught beneath its thrum, there’s no comfort that the drone, and whoever is at its helm in America, is only targeting the bad guys.’ Eliza Griswold introduces Tomas van Houtryve's unsettling photo-essay taken by drones coming close to civilian life in the manner of the drones currently deployed in Afghanistan.

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Aatish Taseer

‘That first sight of the city curled around the river goes through me like the breath of something old and known and familiar.’ Aatish Taseer revisits Varanasi.

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Ivan Chistyakov

‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’

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Kelly Schirmann

‘I have never been in love / with so many variants of nothing.’

Luke Kennard

In the not-so-distant future, middle-class underachievers are faced with a difficult choice: prison or motivational business classes.

Javier Zamora

‘I will etch visas on toilet paper and throw them from a lighthouse.’

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Françoise Huguier & A.M. Homes

‘Blow the candle out, taste the darkness and come back changed.’