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Annawadi

Katherine Boo

In 2007 Katherine Boo travelled to Annawadi – a slum built on Mumbai Airport land – to document the lives of the families living there.

Antediluvian

John Biguenet

‘To the inexperienced, hurricane stories always sound like exaggerations.’

Anthony Bailey | A London View

Anthony Bailey

I come from a generation which still, fifty-odd years on, looks up and once in a while thinks, 'Good, one of ours.'

Anwar Gets Everything

Tahmima Anam

‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’

Apparition

Mark Doty

‘an orange plastic basket of compost / down from the top of the garden – sweet dark, / fibrous rot, promising’

Aquino, Marcos and the White House

Mark Malloch Brown

‘Marcos had, in effect, trapped Washington into appearing to endorse a snap election, and the administration - both State Department and White House - was forced to redefine its position.’

Arcadia

Emma Cline

‘Could a place work on you like an illness?’

Ardor (Aghast)

Anne Carson

‘I taught you what you know, I never taught you what I know.’

Assault by Water

Tim Binding

‘Having come here for a purpose, to trace the fault line of his own history, he searches for the year that saw its inception.’

Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’

Astrid Alben In Conversation: Podcast

Astrid Alben

Astrid Alben discusses her work, the interdisciplinary journal Pars, and developing a poetic alter ego.

At Thirty

Paula Bohince

‘At thirty, I fled from my life / in a hailstorm and firestorm’

At Yankee Stadium

Don DeLillo

‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’

Author, Author

Martin Amis

‘Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.’