Rafael Frumkin

‘I came home this past fall to the Chicago suburb where I’d lived with my parents from age nine until I left for college in 2008, and I moved back into my childhood bedroom.’

Emily Berry

‘Watching the sea is like watching something in pieces continually striving to be whole / Imagine trying to pick up a piece of the sea and show it to a person / I tried to do that.’

Kimiko Hahn

‘Certainly the tide or the dog striding along the sluff of seaweed, / this afternoon – brown, light green, black green, white and red.’

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David Mitchell

‘But what if he answers in Martian? I’ll die.’

Issue 126

Brigitte Grignet

‘There is no land like ours.’

Justin Jampol

Space posters were ‘visually stunning representations of the promises of the Soviet state’.

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Barbara Ras

‘nothing in those early evenings free / of care could have prepared you’

Julia Franck

‘We’ve got a lot of family friends but Thorsten has been coming round far too often recently and I wonder whether I shouldn’t tell her that sometime.’

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David Gates

‘It took longer and longer for the next one to come, and then there wasn’t a next one.’

Melinda Moustakis

‘We all would like to think that with one line, one brush, we could make a reader fall madly in love, and there are writers that elicit such a response with the appropriately gorgeous.’

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

‘We are not burying one of us in snow.’

Sigrid Rausing

Brigitte Grignet & Daniela Silva

‘Places sitting at the edges of the world are often destroyed in the name of so-called development.’

Thomas McGuane

‘Barring weather or a World Series game, on Sundays I’d pick up a nice little box lunch from Mustang Catering and take Grandma some place that smelled good.’