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The Man from Hiroshima

Maurizio Chierici

‘Then the explosion stunned me momentarily. Hiroshima disappeared under a yellow cloud. No one spoke after that.’

Bruce Chatwin | Interview

Bruce Chatwin & Michael Ignatieff

‘We have everything here, but I always wish I was somewhere else. It's a condition that makes one very difficult to live with.’

Michael Ignatieff interviews Bruce Chatwin.

‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite

Teresa Toranska

‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’

Milan Kundera | Interview

Milan Kundera & Ian McEwan

‘If you are a small nation, though, you do not make history. You are always the object of history.’ Ian McEwan interviews Milan Kundera in 1984.

Moscow Women

Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén

‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’

Interviews of the Boys from the War

Daniel Kon

‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’

The Transcripts of Eichmann Interrogated

Jochen von Lang & Claus Sybill

‘In the early period the Jewish problem wasn't the main thing. What interested us in Austria was work and bread, freedom and an end to servitude.’

David Godine | Interview

Eric Burns

‘David R. Godine is a respected, adventurous, outspoken publisher and a soi-disant cultural elitist.’

John Barth | Interview

John Barth

‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’

Interview with Theodore Solotaroff

Theodore Solotaroff & William Warner

‘People belong to literary movements which are abstractions rather than to ways of life which are concrete.’