Jennifer Kabat

‘In Hollin Hills, we believed our flatware could change the world.’ Jennifer Kabat on the intersection of modernist architecture and espionage.

Sigrid Rausing

‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’

Miriam Toews

‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’

Miriam Toews on pacifism in Mennonite communities.

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Matilda Gustavsson

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Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

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Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

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Tomas van Houtryve & Eliza Griswold

‘For those caught beneath its thrum, there’s no comfort that the drone, and whoever is at its helm in America, is only targeting the bad guys.’ Eliza Griswold introduces Tomas van Houtryve's unsettling photo-essay taken by drones coming close to civilian life in the manner of the drones currently deployed in Afghanistan.

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Aatish Taseer

‘That first sight of the city curled around the river goes through me like the breath of something old and known and familiar.’ Aatish Taseer revisits Varanasi.

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Ivan Chistyakov

‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’

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Françoise Huguier & A.M. Homes

‘Blow the candle out, taste the darkness and come back changed.’

Sarah Gerard

‘In Amway, there’s no such thing as contentment.’

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Emmanuel Carrère & Darcy Padilla

‘Even today, she still speaks with emotion about Dorian, the transsexual so proud of her breasts, Diane, who weighed only sixty-five pounds, and Steven, who was so frightened of dying alone that Darcy wished she could promise to be with him when the time came.’ Emmanuel Carrère on addiction and poverty in an forgotten America.

Marian Ryan

‘I will lay down what I want, and I will get it, and prove I am not the kind of woman who is controlled by a man.’