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Saving Mesopotamia
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’
The Cage of You
Kerry Howley
‘They treated their bodies like some exotic animal they’d found fast asleep, beings they needed to wake to truly know.’
The Exorcism of Doctor Escudero
Gabi Martínez
‘His body was like a rock. It wasn’t his. It was like he was possessed.’
The Fixer
Snigdha Poonam
‘In Indian media and advertising, young people are mainly being projected as vessels of breathless aspiration.’
The Foreign Correspondent
Pallavi Aiyar
‘The absence of Indian foreign correspondents was, and is, unexceptional.’
The Ghost in the Kimono
Raghu Karnad
Deep in the dense volume of Delhi’s history Raghu Kardad investigates ‘the remarkable, untold story of the Japanese in the Old Fort’.
The Hand’s Breadth Murders
Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer
‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’
The Invitation
Barry Lopez
‘The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere.’
To Recall, To Praise
Spencer Reece
‘What would follow for five years was one of my last relationships forged through letters.’
