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Life and Breasts
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘Death is here, by our side, and we can make no witty Nabokovian jokes about it.’
Love Jihad
Aman Sethi
‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’
Mother’s House
Raja Shehadeh
‘It was her last service, last sacrifice, to a husband who required so much from her throughout their life together. But we could not succeed.’
On the Refugee Crisis
Gazmend Kapllani
‘Europe, my love. You have such a long history; and oftentimes such a short memory.’
On the Refugee Crisis
Sarah Moss
‘I imagine that each of my migrant forebears needed a bit of help on each arrival, a bit of human decency’
Possession
Bella Pollen
‘The brain is a bureaucratic organ with an almost neurotic determination to balance its books. To account to the department of logic for terror, it calls on the office of imagination to conjure up a worthy vision.’
Pyre
Amitava Kumar
‘In more ways than one, the rituals of death had reminded me that I was an outsider.’
