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Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘I don’t think we have quite processed yet what those months of isolation did to us – a time of fear and daily death tolls and also of unprecedented curtailment of our freedom of movement. But there were consolations.’
Editor Sigrid Rausing introduces the issue.
The Hour of the Wolf
Fatima Bhutto
‘Though I have had dogs all my life, Coco is my first real companion.’
Fatima Bhutto on grief.
In the Heart of the Hall of Mirrors
Chris Dennis
‘If the heart has a great hall then it must also have a dungeon.’
Memoir by Chris Dennis.
Waiting Room
Will Rees
‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’
Will Rees in search of a diagnosis.
Our Stratford
The Herak Family & Damian Le Bas
‘The Roma understand that a home doesn’t need axles and wheels to be “Gypsy”, and we look for other signs.’
Damian Le Bas introduces photographs taken by the Herak family.
Beirut Fragments, 2021
Charif Majdalani
‘We live with the permanent sense of imminent disaster.’
Charif Majdalani on the situation in Beirut. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver.
She Used to Sing Opera
Imogen Crimp
‘I used to be ashamed of it, though I’m not sure what exactly felt shameful.’
On training to be an opera singer.
Notes on Craft
Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.
Notes on Craft
Alex Hyde
‘The scrubbing of floors or rugs. People down on their knees, “tamping” the stain.’ Alex Hyde on the everyday gestures that make a life.
Best Book of 1930: The Man Without Qualities
Elaine L. Wang
Elaine L. Wang on the best book of 1930: The Man Without Qualities.
