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Origin Myth
Mary Ruefle
‘Life continually circled in cold inaccessible serenity around unhappy Earth’
To Rio de Janeiro
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’
Other Women
Francine Prose
‘Feminism is as basic to my sense of self as the fact that I have brown eyes.’
Letters to My Father, Now Dead
Teresa Pàmies
‘I was glad to see General Pavel at your funeral, Father.’
‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite
Teresa Toranska
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
After That, We Are Ignorant
Bilal Tanweer
‘He used to see things in his dreams and made them his policies. Yup, Americans loved his dreams because he was screwing the Soviets and Comrades in them.’
Cyclone
Jonathan Raban
‘It began as a vacuum in the atmosphere, far out over the Atlantic. Trying to fill itself, it set up a spinning mass of air, like a plughole sucking water from a bath; but the faster the winds blew, the more the vacuum deepened.’
Tokyo Year Zero
David Peace
‘The song, the voice, and the heat; men on their knees, heads in hands, sobbing and now howling.’
Polling in New York City
Owen Sheers
‘It’s been said more than once during this US presidential campaign that the rest of the world should be allowed a vote as well.’
Three Poems
Katha Pollitt
‘Nobody wanted to hear / about the rain or its father / or leviathan slicing the deeps / at the black edge of the world / under the cold blue light of the Pleiades.’
