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Best Book of 1990: Anecdotes of Modern Art
Natalie Shapero
‘If I tell you a book is an encyclopedic and fast-paced tour of the interrelationship of making art and being in pain, need I say more?’
Coming Home to the Counter-Revolution
Jack Shenker
‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’
Dead in Venice
Masahiko Shimada
‘If I wasn’t a fish spawned in the Brenta river, why was I so compelled to keep returning?’ Masahiko Shimada on his many trips to Venice.
The Tamarind is Always Sour
Keane Shum
‘By law, the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar are almost all excluded from Myanmar citizenship, making them the largest stateless group in the world.’
Gay and Depressed | State of Mind
Andrew Solomon
‘It would be a bit more tolerable if we lived in a society that didn’t blame depression on its victims.’
Wendell Steavenson | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Wendell Steavenson
‘Our globalised world of easyJet and Google Translate does not seem to have fostered any greater understanding’
Any Idiot Can Write a Book
Nell Stevens
A production company is looking for contestants to participate in a new TV show, modelled on The Apprentice. They are seeking unpublished writers who have completed a novel.
Remembering Denis Johnson
J. Ryan Stradal
When people ask me what Denis was like, I always think about how he listened far more intently than just about any writer I’d ever met.
Desire | State of Mind
Andrea Stuart
‘My burgeoning sense of my own attractiveness, so fragile and recently developed, withered in this less than fertile ground.’
Samanth Subramanian | Is Travel Writing Dead?
Samanth Subramanian
‘The first time I ever visited a place I’d read about in a travel book was when my family took a holiday in Hong Kong in 1993.’
Best Book of 1969: Pricksongs & Descants
Lisa Taddeo
Lisa Taddeo on why Robert Coover’s Pricksongs & Descants is the best book of 1969.
