Issue 79

Jason Cowley

‘How did it feel to have a Jewish grandfather who owed his life to the friendship, or gratitude, or mercy, of Adolf Hitler?’

Issue 79

Dragisa Blanusa

‘Slobodan Milošević was coming to my prison.’

Adrian Leftwich

‘We are all capable of self-deceit, especially when seeking to tell the truth.’

Rory Stewart

‘For a Dervish, religion is all about some direct mystical experience of God’.

Issue 78

Milan Kundera

‘The decades hovered above the dishes’.

Arthur Miller

‘Despite parboiling myself in the shower a few times I began to like the hotel.’

Issue 77

Ian Jack

Issue 76

Richard Sennett

‘For musicians, the sense of touch defines our physical experience of art’

Issue 76

Richard Williams

‘Marilyn Monroe spent a couple of nights at the Cal-Neva. Sinatra knew she was in a bad way.’

Issue 76

Philip Hensher

‘So there is music and music. It is not easy, after all.’

Issue 76

Blake Morrison

‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’

Ian Jack

‘She was an extraordinary person, and an ordinary one.’

Ian Jack on the life of Kathleen Ferrier, the English contralto singer.

Issue 76

John Ryle

‘The beat of the city was shot through with drumming patterns used to invoke them in the Saturday night ceremonies.’

Issue 76

Nicholson Baker

‘I heard Debussy's side-slipping water-slopes, with cold spray blown off their crests’