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Rajesh Parameswaran | Interview
Rajesh Parameswaran & Yuka Igarashi
‘I could tell you that love and violence are basic forces interwoven through all of nature and human affairs, and that’s why I mix the two.’
Taiye Selasi | Interview
Yuka Igarashi & Taiye Selasi
‘I was rather surprised to discover that I’d painted such a devastating portrait.’
‘They’: Stalin’s Polish Élite
Teresa Toranska
‘You referred to a comrade as ‘Mister’. That's offensive.’
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Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen
‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’
David McConnell | Interview
David McConnell & Patrick Ryan
‘These were deranged acts but they were ultimately based on something that’s historically been treated as a social good, the sense of personal honour.’
Katherine Faw Morris | Interview
Katherine Faw Morris & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted her to be a pit bull.’
The Exploding Planet of Junot Díaz
Evelyn Ch’ien
‘The world tends to give us pieces, and then in our imagination, because of our desire and because of our need, we make them whole.’
Interviews of the Boys from the War
Daniel Kon
‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’
Anjan Sundaram and Lindsey Hilsum In Conversation
Lindsey Hilsum & Anjan Sundaram
‘Sometimes we don’t quite know what we’re seeing.’
Julie Otsuka | Interview
Julie Otsuka & Patrick Ryan
‘Using the ‘we’ voice allowed me to tell a much larger story than I would have been able to tell otherwise.’
Turkish Granta | Interview
Berrak Gocer & Ted Hodgkinson
‘The writings, when they came together, made it very clear that there will always be a new approach to the issue of identity.’
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
