Issue 70

Kate Grenville

‘He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger.’

Ian Jack

‘Tragedies needed heroes. Titanic’s band supplied them.’

Issue 66

William Fiennes

‘Are these great journeys examples of learned or inherited behaviour?’

Issue 65

Ruth Gershon

‘The children of ruling families are born in the purple’.

Issue 65

Howard Hodgkin

Interior views are certainly more comfortable to look at than those outside.

Issue 65

Philip Hensher

‘They lived in London at the end of the nineteen eighties.’

Issue 65

Ian Hamilton

Issue 64

Orlando Figes

’There are times when every nation needs to think a little less about its history.‘

Masha Gessen

‘Where do crimes begin and end, and who, decades later, can be held responsible?’

Issue 64

Charlotte Hobson

‘Petya Pravda's dead. He died forty days ago, as elongated and translucent as an icon.’

Issue 59

Michel Houellebecq

‘Smoking cigarettes has become the only element of real freedom in my day-to-day existence.’

Issue 57

Ian Jack

‘I first went to India twenty years ago as a reporter.’

Issue 57

Edward Hoagland

‘I believed that I had a sixth sense.’

Issue 57

Trevor Fishlock

‘His room is as he left it, furnished with a carpet, a spinning wheel, a low white table, a mattress and cushion.’