Romesh Gunesekera

‘It is to Shakespeare’s pages I return whenever I feel I am sinking. There I can be sure to find a lifeline.’

Hawa Jande Golakai

‘Now we’ve fizzled into a ridiculous unsaid, a flaccid tale of love, or lack thereof, in the time of Ebola.’

Tyehimba Jess

‘Let me tell you how / white hands kilned me / in the moonless middle / of night.’

Eliza Griswold

‘This, of course, was years before anyone knew or cared who Boko Haram was.’

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Eliza Griswold

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Peregrine Hodson

‘We have to find a way to balance life with memory.’

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A.M. Homes

‘He was rare and singular.’

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Eduardo Soteras Jalil

Eduardo Soteras Jalil photographs Gaza’s residents.

Darrell Hartman

From The Revenant through Jurassic Park and Godzilla, Darrell Hartman traces the evolving meaning of megafauna in popular culture.

Greg Jackson

‘You only have time to live your own life, and mine was falling apart.’

Cal Flyn

‘I was going north to find a tree farm, in a land where there are no trees.’

Rachel B. Glaser

Rachel B. Glaser shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Daisy Hildyard

Daisy Hildyard on why Lisa Jardine's The Curious Life of Robert Hooke is the best book of 2003.

Lorna Gibb

Lorna Gibb on why Alasdair Gray's Lanark is the best book of 1981.