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The Handbag Studio
Thomas Keneally
‘In Los Angeles in late October of 1980, I was feeling the strange, malign electricity the Santa Ana winds bring to the city.’
Two or Three Things I Dunno About Cassavetes
Jonathan Lethem
‘Writing about Cassavetes feels like vocalese: putting lyrics to passages of jazz improvisation.’
Little Durga
Shampa Banerjee
‘I groaned inwardly when anybody mentioned Pather Panchali and my small part in it.’
Worried? Us?
Bill McKibben
‘Though we know that our culture has placed our own lives on a demonic fast-forward, we imagine that the earth must work on some other timescale.’
The Weather in Mongolia
Philip Marsden
‘In Mongolian lore, winter lasts precisely eighty-one days: nine periods of nine days’.
Rowing to Alaska
Wayne McLennan
‘I can't remember whose idea it was, whose heart first beat faster, who made the other excited, but at some point Doug and I decided to row a boat to Alaska.’
The Greenland Pump
Matthew Hart
‘In its currents the ocean is printing news about our future, and we must keep up on the latest bulletins.’
The Evidence of Man
Edward Burtynsky & Noah Richler
‘When I’m photographing something in the industrial landscape, I’m looking at whatever is that residual thing.’
