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Best Book of 2006: The Re-Emergence of Global Finance
Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough on why Gary Burn's The Re-Emergence of Global Finance is the best book of 2006.
Saving Mesopotamia
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’
Fatima Bhutto on the Refugee Crisis
Fatima Bhutto
‘In a connected world, how can anyone close their doors?’
First Sentence: Molly Brodak
Molly Brodak
‘A name is a single small token of selfhood issued at birth, upon which all the rest of one’s person must be built.’
War in Donbas
Julian Evans
Six days on the front lines of Ukraine’s ongoing battle with pro-Russian separatists
After Maidan
Oliver Bullough
‘A woman asked the steward behind the registration desk if our flight to Moscow was domestic or international. “We are still working on that,” the man answered.’
Bandit
Molly Brodak
‘There are fragments of a criminal alongside fragments of a dad, and nothing overlaps, nothing eclipses the other, they’re just there, next to each other. No narrative fits.’
Cairo: September 2014
Wiam El-Tamami
‘Over the past few months, the government has been ad-libbing the time.’
The Foreign Correspondent
Pallavi Aiyar
‘The absence of Indian foreign correspondents was, and is, unexceptional.’
Fatima Bhutto | My Other Thing
Fatima Bhutto
‘If you happen to be friends with one of the world’s most fearsome food critics, don’t cook for him.’
