Issue 127

Daisuke Yokota

‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’

Issue 54

Kate Wheeler

‘Althea's neck strained. Her black, small eyes shifted swiftly, blinked, then fixed evilly on Ingrid.’

Issue 124

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Eudora Welty

‘There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down.’

Issue 19

John Updike

‘No, it is not confrontation but some wish to avoid it, some hasty wish to please, that betrays my flow of speech.’

Issue 69

Richard Williams

‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.

Issue 78

Edmund White

‘Were there moral cataracts that one could remove?’

Jesmyn Ward

‘Given played football with single-minded purpose his senior year, the fall before he died.’

Richard Watson

A panel discussion about the origins of the British jihad.

Diane Williams

‘The tiny daisies were scored by the shadows of the slats of the venetian blinds and the stripes were shivering.’ Diane Williams.

Adrian Van Young

‘I shift my weight right, where the hammer hangs down. Then left, then right, then left again.’

Ghassan Zaqtan

‘Nothing’s left to say between us / everything went / into the train that hid its whistle.’

Issue 67

Joy Williams

‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’

Sarah Waters

‘She felt exhausted, emptied out; she thought of the day that had passed—it was astonishing to her, that a single set of hours could contain so many separate states of violent feeling.’