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Lister’s Mill
Liz Jobey
‘The city has defied many plans for its regeneration and its centre is a dispiriting mess’
Martin and Me
Thomas Healy
‘The Dobermann Club was run by a strong-voiced ex-army man who brooked no nonsense.’
The Muse in the Cellar
James Lasdun
‘It seems to me that at the age of thirteen, I had already developed the cynicism of a seventy-year-old dictator.’
Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘The last issue of Granta celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and retraced a little of its pre-1979 history as a magazine for and by the students of Cambridge University.’
The Merry Widow
Edmund White
’She met my father in Texas and then they moved north, where I was born in Cincinnati.‘
Mutations
Masha Gessen
‘With a disease as unpredictable as cancer, the opportunity to blame an actual person is an unexpected temptation.’
The Collector
Paul Maliszewski
‘Mitchell's writing is a blueprint for a New York which was then disappearing and is now almost lost.’
Mother of the Year
Paul Theroux
‘The words ‘big family’ have the same ring for me as 'savage tribe', and I now know that every big family is savage in its own way.’
Notes from the Land of Nod
Jim Lewis
‘You can drink in a bar and sober up in the basement of a church, but everyone sleeps (or lies awake) in solitude.’
