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Dreams of a Leisure Society
Adam Foulds
‘They were citizens of a multidimensional universe and they liked to get high.’
Introducing Laura Erber
Dara Horn
‘Do yourself a favour: do not read Laura Erber’s ‘That Wind Blowing through the Plaza’ only once.’
Dry Flowers from the Cerrado
Milton Hatoum
‘People say that Brasilia’s new national library opened before it had any books. Is that a metaphor for many politicians’ minds? Or for these times we’re in?’
House Style: Editing Brazil
Yuka Igarashi
‘We’re freaks . . . Why are we still talking about typos?’
Lion
Luisa Geisler
‘The better they were at escaping, the quicker, more daring they were, the harder the cat chased them.’
Still Life
Vinicius Jatobá
‘You see the house and its time, the house and the house alone, though your secrets, your fears and silences still exist there, locked away behind the denseness of the closed doors’
Apnoea
Daniel Galera
‘I could make you promise much worse things.’ Daniel Galera muses on unknown family histories.
Shackleton’s Medical Kit
Gavin Francis
‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine at the start of the twenty-first century.’
Anthony Shadid
Cecil Hourani
‘Anthony’s life was a triumph and a tragedy. It was a tragedy which I believe he foresaw.’
Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
M.J. Hyland
‘My father was sitting on my doorstep. He was wearing khaki shorts, his bare head was exposed to the full bore of the sun, and he was holding a pineapple.’
