Astrid Alben

‘2016 is almost over but the impact of this year’s political events will reverberate around the globe for decades.’

Colin Barrett

‘The ultimate goal of each act of art, each work of terror, is to demolish the old, incumbent reality, and create a new one.’

Melissa Febos

‘Influences imprint themselves on our consciousness as light does a photograph, or trauma the psyche’

Colin Grant

‘No matter how I attempted to interpret the email, it could only be read in one way: I was out of the Bunny Wailer club. Jah Bunny had put a curse on me.’

Snigdha Poonam

‘The Hindu cowboy accords to the cow the holiest status in his imagination: of mother. It is his duty to protect her honour; it is his privilege to kill for her.’

Javier Zamora

‘Immigration has become a physical thing, like a tumor inside us, between us.’

Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’

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.’