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The Line
Amor Towles
‘It didn’t take long for the citizens of Moscow to realize that if you had no choice but to stand in line, then Pushkin was the man to stand next to.’
Longshore Drift
Julia Armfield
‘She has never been very keen on the thought of herself as other people see her.’
Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova
Haruki Murakami
‘That was the setup for the review I wrote about this imaginary record.’ Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
Field Notes on a Marriage
Te-Ping Chen
‘I tell myself it doesn’t do to fixate too much on the dead: apart from everything else, they can’t answer you.’
Good Progress
Jem Calder
‘I released the picture of my mother’s breast, which resized itself to auto-fit my smartphone’s display.’
Visitors Welcome
Thomas Pierce
‘Our reasons for purchasing a reJesus no doubt require little explanation.’
Schenectady
Adam O’Fallon Price
‘To be fair, it is near a waterfall; although, to be fair again, everything around here is near a waterfall.’
Insurrecto
Gina Apostol
‘She does not go home for her mother's funeral because the prospect of return gives her insomnia. She splurges on a coat from Miu Miu instead.’
The Wind That Lays Waste
Selva Almada
‘Leni’s last image of her mother is from the rear window of the car.’
