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The Ascent of Man
Joseph O’Neill
‘One June dusk in 1999 I found myself walking across a rice field near Fishing Pond, in east Trinidad, in the company of a game warden and a self-described naturalist-at-large sometimes known as the Turtle Man.’
The Collector
Paul Maliszewski
‘Mitchell's writing is a blueprint for a New York which was then disappearing and is now almost lost.’
Her Lousy Shoes
Tracy O’Neill
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
Lederhosen
Haruki Murakami
‘Please, I beg you. If I do not buy lederhosen now, I will never buy lederhosen.’
Can Cambodia recover from its past?
Elena Lesley
These photographs accompany Elena Lesley’s dispatch from Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
Brand Leader
Fintan O’Toole
‘It was a clear, uncomplicated space, a brand image, a label that could be stuck on a billion sauce bottles.’
The War Artist
Margaret Luongo
‘On the third day, the little rosebud teacups rattled in their saucers as the war artist poured the coffee.’
Kinder Than Solitude
Yiyun Li
‘Being let down was Celia’s fate; life never failed to bestow upon her pain and disappointment she had to suffer on everyone’s behalf, so that the world could go on being a good place, free from real calamities.’
The Chelsea Affect
Arthur Miller
‘Despite parboiling myself in the shower a few times I began to like the hotel.’
