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Notes Toward the Memoirs of a Book Thief
Rodrigo Fresán
‘There’s never enough money to buy all the books we need to read or simply admire, hold, caress, knowing that we have them, that they’re ours.’
Non-fiction by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Guddu and Pintu | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘They examine roads the way I imagine wine-tasters assess a new vintage or a strange grape.’
What I Think About When I Think About Robots
Steven Hall
‘The robot is the Godot of practical science.’
Hippocrates
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘Pain informs. Pain draws a map. Doctors resolve to relieve pain, but pain is information, and to lose it is to lose something valuable.’
Hajiriya and Gajiriya | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The day after my visit to the silica factories in Godhra, I am taken to meet three dead men.’
The Last Vet
Aminatta Forna
‘Jalloh likes to keep accurate records of such things. After all, nobody else does.’
Janesville, Wisconsin
Steven Greenhouse
‘To them, the emphasis was on the ‘creative’ part of creative destruction. But in Janesville, few could see beyond the destruction.’
Prajapati | Moving Parts
Ruchir Joshi
‘The funnel is clearly dormant, but the dust is alive, rising up even as it closes in around us.’
If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder
Aleksandar Hemon
‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’
Easter Island Noodles Almondine
Thom Jones
‘I grew up in a factory town, Aurora, Illinois, some forty miles west of Chicago.’
Are We Related?
Liz Jobey
‘Most family relationships are difficult, and sometimes they can become the most difficult human relationships of all.’
