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Talking Italish
Antonio Melechi
‘For my mother and father, the past and present had both become foreign countries.’
Possessed | State of Mind
Jules Montague
‘I am neither fully awake nor entirely asleep. In fact, I wonder if I am even alive.’
Terra Nova
Robert Moor
Robert Moor remembers hitch-hiking across Newfoundland: ‘The way to pronounce Newfoundland, Bill and Sue instructed me, is to remember that it rhymes with understand.’
If Mother’s Happy
Kathleen McCaul Moura
‘Towards the end of my pregnancy, like many women, my emotions were taut, stretched thin like the skin round my middle.’
Best Book of 1818: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Luke Neima
‘What sets Hoffmann’s work apart is the meeting of the joint impulses of Enlightenment and Romantic thought’
Hoa Nguyen | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Hoa Nguyen
‘I didn’t have the language for why I could not be a tourist in the same way as my white counterparts.’
Mary O’Donoghue | Notes on Craft
Mary O’Donoghue
In this new series, we give authors a space to discuss the way they write – from technique and style to inspirations that inform their craft.
Mountains Don’t Know Borders
Lois Parshley
‘In the Balkans, the present is often perched precariously on top of the past.’
Best book of 1936: Locos
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud on why Felipe Alfau’s Locos is the best book of 1936.
Getting Away With It
Timothy Phillips
A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.
Pop-Up People
Peter Pomerantsev
We are living through a period of pop-up populism, where each political movement redefines ‘the Many’ and ‘the People’, where we are always reconsidering who counts as an ‘insider’ or an ‘outsider’, where what it means to belong is never certain.
