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Distilling Existence: A Study with Wilson Amunga
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Bernd Hartung
‘If the river makes a sound now, it is a drawn-out moan.’ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on distilleries in Kenya, with photographs by Bernd Hartung.
The Guests
Hisham Matar
‘Strangely, it was Joseph Conrad who introduced me to Edward Said and not the other way around.’
Feeling Southern: A Patagonian Story
Fabián Martínez Siccardi
‘I was harbouring a southern feeling, a deep connection with the South of this real world, where I was born and will probably die.’
#TeamBaddiel vs #TeamBabel
David Baddiel
‘Social media has allowed everyone in the world to raise their own little flag of self’
The Tension of Transience
Chloe Aridjis
‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’
How I Became an SJW
Anouchka Grose
‘I had become a pacifist in the time it took to run between the bedroom and the bathroom of a London flat.’
American Orchard
Diana Matar & Max Houghton
‘This unsettling imagery points to a dereliction of civic duty.’ Max Houghton introduces photographs by Diana Matar.
Populism and Humour
William Davies
‘As reality has grown more absurd, the job of satirists has grown harder.’
Harmflesh
Margie Orford
‘This burning girl that I am with skin stretched white hot across unfair flesh. Harmflesh.’
Two Keiths and the Wrong Piano
Hanif Kureishi
‘My response to the music had reminded me that concealed inside myself was a more excitable and open self raring to get out.’
Letters from Prison
Basel Ghattas & Einat Weizman
Letters from Basel Ghattas, an Israeli-Arab member of parliament imprisoned for smuggling cell phones to Palestinian prisoners.
