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Airships
Javier Marías
‘We live in an age that tends to depersonalize even people and is, in principle, averse to anthropomorphism.’
All Hail the Holy Bone
Maggie O’Farrell
‘It is part angel, part lepidopteran, part Rorschach inkblot.’
All that Offers a Happy Ending Is a Fairy Tale
Yiyun Li
‘If you were like me, you would know the obsession of the compulsive reader: every street sign; every bottle label’
Amazon Adventure
Redmond O’Hanlon
‘Having spent two months travelling in the primary rain forests of Borneo, I thought that a four-month journey in the country between the Orinoco River in Venezuela and the Amazon in Brazil would pose no particular problem.’
American Folk
Greil Marcus
‘Smith placed murder ballads, explosions of religious ecstasy, moral warnings and hedonistic revels on the same plane of value and meaning’
Among Chickens
Jonathan Miller
‘The joke makes us aware that we have complex notions about those things for which we can be praised and blamed, those things which could be said to be voluntary or involuntary, those things which we can do half-heartedly, those things which we do flat out and those things we can't help.’
Among the Citizen Soldiers
Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan visits Lexington, Virginia – a centre of the Confederary – in the wake of the far-right rally in Charlottesville.
Among the Pipemen
Andrew Martin
‘It was as though, after a period of wariness, my pipe had warmed to me.’
An Accidental Spy
Phillip Knightley
‘The CIA had become concerned about Soviet influence in India in the early 1960s.’
An Escape from Kampala
Wycliffe Kato
‘‘Be brave,’ she said, ‘pull yourself together. What you are about to see is worse than you ever imagined.’ She asked if I knew what Winston Churchill had called Uganda. He had called it the pearl of Africa.’
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Ange Mlinko
‘I rediscovered the efficacy of meter (or the ‘contrast between fixity and flux’) when I was stuck in a shark tunnel with my kids and was afraid I was coming down with a panic attack.’
