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Lake Like a Mirror
Ho Sok Fong
‘If she’d swerved any harder, she would have crashed right into the lake.’ New fiction by Ho Sok Fong, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce.
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
‘Language is a risk that a nation takes. If a language survives, its people do too.’ Translated from the French by David Homel.
Tshinanu
Naomi Fontaine
Plus tard, ils me diront comme tu étais un grand homme. Un savant. Un érudit de la chasse.
El Salvador: An Aide-Mémoire
Carolyn Forché
‘It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.’
Rock Springs
Richard Ford
‘But as I read on a napkin once, between the idea and the act a whole kingdom lies. And I had a hard time with my acts, which were oftentimes offender's acts.’
Where Does Writing Come From?
Richard Ford
‘Occasionally if pushed or annoyed I'll come right out and say it: I make these little buggers up, that's what. So sue me’.
The Womanizer
Richard Ford
‘Austin turned up the tiny street – rue Sarrazin – at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one, one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, which he could take all the way to Josephine Belliard's apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens.’
Olympic Drift: making way for the Games
Laura Oldfield Ford
‘Walking around the perimeter of the Olympic site has become an act of remembrance.’
Empire
Richard Ford
‘Outside on the cold air, flames moved and divided and swarmed the sky. And Sims felt alone in a wide empire, removed and afloat, calmed, as if life was far away now, as if blackness was all around.’
