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Nothing to be afraid of | State of Mind
Anil K. Seth
‘Life in the first person is both magical and terrifying. But it is circumscribed.’ Anil K. Seth on the ties between our brains, bodies and consciousness.
A Suburban Weekend
Lisa Taddeo
‘The facts. Fern was skinnier than Liv, but Liv was blonde and tall and her breasts were enormous and thrillingly spaced.’
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘What’s in a state of mind? How do we describe emotions, or the complex relationship between individuals and the state?’
Coming Home to the Counter-Revolution
Jack Shenker
‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’
Gay and Depressed | State of Mind
Andrew Solomon
‘It would be a bit more tolerable if we lived in a society that didn’t blame depression on its victims.’
Brother | State of Mind
Max Porter
‘We don’t often talk seriously or in depth about our childhood these days, but we know we could, and we know what good it did us.’
Chère Madame
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust’s letters to his neighbour, translated from the French by Lydia Davis.
The Peripatetic Penelope Fitzgerald
Lucy Scholes
Lucy Scholes on the highs, lows and package tours of Booker-prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald. ‘Fitzgerald’s life can only be attributed to the caprices of fate.’
Dead in Venice
Masahiko Shimada
‘If I wasn’t a fish spawned in the Brenta river, why was I so compelled to keep returning?’ Masahiko Shimada on his many trips to Venice.