Juliana Spahr

‘So the dolphins talks, talks, over thirty distinguishable sounds.’

Mary Ruefle

‘Nothing can prepare you for this.’ Mary Ruefle on menopause.

Alan Rossi

‘Loneliness is the extra, the part that’s unnecessary.’

Mary Rokonadravu

‘After one hundred years, this is what I have: a daguerreotype of her in bridal finery; a few stories told and retold in plantations, kitchens, hospitals, airport lounges.’

Sandra Simonds

‘let us / build the openwork fabric of our garden / on the fear in the body’

Lauren Schenkman

‘She felt things under the skin: scars where the body had torn during childbirth, clumps of cellulite, lobules and ducts.’

Aman Sethi

‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’

Yoko Tawada

‘You didn’t know where you wanted to end up, had never considered how much time you had left.’

Gonçalo M. Tavares

‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’

Issue 130

Samanth Subramanian

‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’

Issue 119

Robin Robertson

Issue 131

Sandra Simonds

‘Here I am. Sephora, symbol of stolen work.’

Sigrid Rausing

‘Possession takes many forms, and at the heart of it is death and dereliction, invasion and submission.’

Sumana Roy

‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’