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Chinua Achebe’s Legacy
Ike Anya
‘Who will speak out for us now? Who will ask the hard questions of us and the world that he did?’
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal
Al Alvarez
‘The water was chilly and sweet – cold enough to stay with me and make me shiver while I did some shopping later.’
In the Shadow of John Ascuaga’s Nugget
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘It would be falsely modest to claim that I appreciate the hot dog on any level beneath that of connoisseur.’
Betrayal
Adam Foulds
‘The thrill of this film – and it is thrilling – is seeing that understood and played out by actors of incredible skill.’
From the Past Comes the Storms
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘During the hottest months, the thermometer settles in at 100 degrees like a nonagenarian in a rocker – no one can make it move.’
Seven Days in Syria
Janine di Giovanni
‘I had come to Syria because I wanted to see a country before it tumbled down the rabbit hole of war’
Flowers Appear on the Earth
Samantha Harvey
‘In their deepest sorrow the islanders buried the ashes of their forty-six dead.’
Fiction by Samantha Harvey.
Kopfkino
Chloe Aridjis
‘Yet the little white disks with a dent down the middle are no panacea; whenever I take one of these thought guillotines I feel trapped in a grey zone’.
God is Brazilian
André Barcinski
‘Guys like V seem to be everywhere in Brazil these days: riding in vehicles they can’t afford, buying the latest generation TV sets and smart phones, getting hooked on endless installment plans and the allure of easy credit.’
Pola Oloixarac on Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks & Pola Oloixarac
‘It is a rare pleasure to read Saer’s influence through the Brazilian music of Julián Fuks’ language, with his keen and almost obsessive eye for detail.’
