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Captain Scott’s Biscuit
Thomas Keneally
‘So the Ross Sea Novotel and McMurdo Sheraton could be built within this century. Children will gambol on the ice shelf where Scott exhaled his last, pained breath.’
Cary Grant’s Suit
Todd McEwen
‘North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.’
Cecilia
Andrew O’Hagan
‘Now that everyone lives as if in a movie, we begin to forget that once it was only special people who did.’
Chasing Wolves in the American West
Adam Nicolson
‘It is the wildest part of the American South-West and, in a way, its most beautiful.’
Cheap Intellectuals
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘Europeans want a fictitious Latin America on to which they can project their own desires. They want a Latin America which satisfies a longing for political engagement that is not possible in their own countries.’
Chickens and Eggs
Doris Lessing
‘Twenty-one days it takes to hatch eggs, twenty-one nights, and there sits the great fierce hen who had accepted me as protector and jailer for that time.’
Children of The Wind
Primo Levi
‘Today Kaenunu is largely deserted. On Mahui, on the other hand, it is not unusual for anyone with patience and good vision to catch sight of some atoula.’
Chocolate Empires
Andrew Martin
‘Q: When is a factory not a factory? A: When it’s a chocolate factory.’
Chris Kraus on Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus discusses her new biography, After Kathy Acker, which looks at the life and work of the artist twenty years after her death.
Christmas Eve in Uganda
Ryszard Kapuściński
‘In fact, from the moment I spotted Amin, I made a point of neither accelerating nor slowing down – no turning or stopping.’
Chromium
Primo Levi
‘Life is full of customs whose roots can no longer be traced ... but in any event, why were pig's feet obligatory with lentils, and cheese on macaroni?’
