Sigrid Rausing

John Siddique

‘He hands me my inheritance: a box of conversations. Fragments of memory, blank spaces, things which there are no words for.’

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.’

Issue 44

Paul Theroux

‘He was such a darter he seldom stayed still long enough for anyone to sum him up.’

Jim Ruland

‘When one of the fishermen starts belting out ‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Out Tonight’, it feels like a prophecy come to life.’

Issue 94

Jeremy Treglown

‘The effect is brutal and frightening, and rightly so.’

Issue 27

Eugene Richards

‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’

Issue 130

Samanth Subramanian

‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’

Issue 67

Larry Towell

A photoessay on the Mennonite colonies of Mexico and in Canada.

Issue 124

David Searcy

‘The coyote skull is on the table.’

Issue 60

Deborah Scroggins

‘When I think of Nasir, I remember the sun. Nothing in that place escaped it.’

Pauls Toutonghi

‘Political institutions can be as fragile as the human bodies that run them.’

Issue 52

Amartya Sen

‘Famines can occur with or without substantial declines in food output.’

Issue 101

Xan Rice

‘Some men live to fly, and Captain John Wilkinson was one of them.’