Ryosuke Saegusa

Jeremy Sheldon

‘Audiences don’t know somebody sits down and writes a picture.’

Ismail Dindar & Alison Culliford

‘Why did I come to France? Well, at school I took French lessons and I got nine out of ten.’

Lana Asfour

‘Intelligent, unpredictable, occasionally ruthless, Jumblatt shows that he is still very much in the game.’

Rodrigo Fresán

‘What would be the point of writing anything if I went down in history as the person who killed Borges?’

Jeremy Seabrook

‘My mother’s cry rang in my ears from infancy. ‘No child of mine is going into a shoe factory.’’

David Jégou & Andrew Hussey

‘What I like most is that the staff are all card-carrying Communists – very militant and all passionate about what they are doing.’

Brad Watson

‘Before I moved to Wyoming in 2005, I was – like a lot of people outside this region, it turns out – not quite sure just where it was.’

Rodrigo Fresán

‘There’s never enough money to buy all the books we need to read or simply admire, hold, caress, knowing that we have them, that they’re ours.’

Non-fiction by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

Ceridwen Dovey

‘‘Have you always worked hard in your life?’ I asked Drieka on the first day I filmed her.’

Ruchir Joshi

‘They examine roads the way I imagine wine-tasters assess a new vintage or a strange grape.’

Marc Pastor & Lilian Neuman

‘When I was younger I wanted to be a detective, a clown and a writer, in that order.’

Daniel Alarcón

‘Being pirated is the Peruvian equivalent of making the bestseller list.’

Issue 109

Donald Ray Pollock

‘I began working at the Mead Paper Company in Chillicothe, Ohio, in the summer of 1973.’