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Issue 125

Dogfight Over Karachi

Khademul Islam

‘I slowly went down the stairs, feeling my being unspooling.’

Issue 42

Losses

Günter Grass

‘In the summer, my wife and I visited the small Danish island of Møn.’

Issue 100

Highlights

Alan Hollinghurst

‘Surely we’re not going to Rome for discos.’

Issue 119

Mark Haddon | Podcast

Mark Haddon

‘Sean finds a log to use as a shooting gallery and sends Daniel off in search of targets.’

Issue 15

What Were You Dreaming?

Nadine Gordimer

‘And I'm careful what I say, I tell them about the blacks, how too many people spoil it for us, they robbing and killing, you can't blame white people.’

Issue 93

A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk

Maureen Freely

‘How do you hold your own in such a climate?’

Issue 132

(nostalgia)

Juliet Jacques

‘I ended up piecing my life together through other people.’

Issue 1

The First Winter of My Married Life

William Gass

‘Our ears were soon as sensitive as a skinless arm, and we spoke in whispers, registered the furtive drip of remote taps.’

Issue 57

India! The Golden Jubilee: Introduction

Ian Jack

‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’

Issue 91

The Error World

Simon Garfield

‘She said that the stamp gave her palpitations.’

Issue 5

Footplacers, London Transport, Owls, Wincer-Boise

Russell Hoban

‘All those footsteps have been gathered up into the footplacer, all those goings are gone.’

Issue 104

The Father

Kirsty Gunn

‘They never had people who could be fathers here before.’

Issue 112

The House by the Gallows

Intizar Hussain

‘Along with religion, an unthinking nationalism had become the other god of Pakistan.’

Issue 109

Shahid | Moving Parts

Ruchir Joshi

Ruchir Joshi travelled around rural India for our ‘Work’ issue, documenting parts of the country’s informal economy, and meeting people with working lives that are unseen, or unique, or damaging.

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