Issue 23

Fawwaz Traboulsi

‘In Beirut, a well reveals layer upon layer, generation after generation, of ruins.’

Issue 26

John Ryle

‘Bor is a long way from Khartoum – more than 700 miles. There were other hostile groups on the way and precious little food.’

Issue 83

James Hamilton-Paterson

‘There will always be an unbridgeable conceptual gap between our unique species and the rest.’

Minal Hajratwala

‘Please be creative. This is only the beginning.’

Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar returns to his hometown of Patna

J.M. Coetzee

‘It is eccentric not to eat meat in the United States, doubly so in Texas.’

Khademul Islam

‘I slowly went down the stairs, feeling my being unspooling.’

Alexis Okeowo

21 million people, $91 billion GDP, an ambitious governor whose term is up: Alexis Okeowo on the megacity of Lagos

Issue 62

Richard Lloyd Parry

Maaza Mengiste

‘Meles Zenawi’s legacy is as complicated as the life he chose to live, under a name (Meles) that he took from a fallen comrade during his days as a guerrilla fighter. ’

John Berger

‘Use these photos as means of transport. Ride on them. No passes needed. Go close. Imprudently close. They leave every minute.’

John Berger on images of violent dispossession from South Africa and Lesotho.

Rabih Alameddine

‘I come from a family that hangs pictures of family on its walls.’

Issue 6

Ariel Dorfman

‘Unlike the other comic strips in the magazine, ‘The Adventures of Mampato’ was conceived, illustrated, and entirely produced in Chile.’

Morwari Zafar

‘More important than anything else that fateful year was the life-defining transcendence of Peter Gabriel.’