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On Sweden, state power and Susan Sontag
Sigrid Rausing
‘Sweden in a sense was a celebrity state because it had become globally symbolic of the welfare state, of high taxes, of sexual education and liberation.’
Rosalind Porter | What I’m Reading
Rosalind Porter
‘Despite the difficulties booksellers have selling the stuff, the short story isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.’
Wonder Why
Karan Mahajan
‘‘I personally could not tell what exhibits were fake and which were real,’ he wrote. ‘Why would the curators want to create this confusion and mock our very senses?’’
An Open Letter to Mbeki
Petina Gappah
‘You are human, Mr Mbeki, and are therefore prey to the resentments and obstinacies that plague the mere mortal.’
Simon Willis | What I’m Reading
Simon Willis
‘Like an excitable child, I rushed to the foyer to buy my copy.’
Opinion: Kenya
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
‘Where Kenyatta had imprisoned me for my writing, Moi sent three truckloads of armed policemen to raze to the ground the community theatre where I worked.’
Musa Qala, Afghanistan | Dispatches
James Holland
‘As I discovered, many Afghans still believe that the Taliban offers security.’
Jason Cowley | What I’m Reading
Jason Cowley
‘Music, because of its abstraction, is the most difficult of all art forms to write about with exactitude and precision.’
One Hundred: Introduction
William Boyd
Granta 100: One Hundred’s guest-editor on the challenge of putting together a milestone issue.
