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A Plug for Bukowski
Henry Davis
‘There is an American literature that is anti-intellectual, apolitical and anti-social.’
A Poet in Cuba
Reinaldo Arenas
‘Perfect totalitarian systems have always been in the vanguard: they modify not only the past and the future, but they also abolish the present.’
A Rationalist in the Jungle
Héctor Abad
‘A pale-faced, near-sighted urbanite like me is nothing less than handicapped in the heart of the jungle.’
A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell
Chris Dennis
‘What is the metaphor of the room? Of the house. Of the neighborhood.’
Chris Dennis on incarceration.
A Small Bengal, NW3
Amit Chaudhuri
‘Those who stayed on had their reasons. . . and none of those reasons, it is safe to suppose, had anything to do with an overwhelming attachment to England.’
An essay by Amit Chaudhuri.
A Story for Aesop
John Berger
‘The image impressed me when I set eyes upon it for the first time. It was as if it were already familiar, as if, as a child, I had already seen the same man framed in a doorway.’
A Summer of Japanese Literature
Dan Bradley
From manga to crime fiction, contemporary literature to Nobel-Prize-winning classics, here are ten works of Japanese literature worth spending your summer on
A True Afrikaner
Mary Benson
‘What first struck me was his courtesy: it never faltered even when some remark by the prosecutor or an action by the police angered him, hardening the expression in his blue eyes.’
A Vacation From Myself
John Beckman
‘My every next thought took a melancholy detour through drippy forests of humid emotions, often never to return’
A World of Networks and Vines
Marie Darrieussecq
‘No one is alone in their bed anymore.’
An excerpt from Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston.
Abbottabad Pastoral
Humera Afridi
‘Until now, I had never experienced a disaster, or witnessed mass suffering and death close up.’
