Issue 69

Hanif Kureishi

‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.

Issue 68

Peter Ho Davies

‘The court had given me six months to prove I was a responsible adult and a fit mother’.

Issue 69

Graham Swift

‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.

Issue 69

Richard Williams

‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.

John Barth

Issue 104

James Lasdun

‘But he had engulfed her somehow; taken up residence in her imagination like some large, dense, intractable problem that had been given to her to solve.’

Issue 104

Daniyal Mueenuddin

‘You buy me things and then later you’ll think you bought me. I was never for sale.’

Issue 104

Emma Donoghue

‘I just hope you don’t get seasick.’

Issue 104

Kirsty Gunn

‘They never had people who could be fathers here before.’

Justin Torres

‘We were six snatching hands, six stomping feet; we were brothers, boys, three little kings locked in a feud for more.’

Soumya Bhattacharya

‘How will you later remember these years in Calcutta, your years of first, rapid, change in a city that had changed so much?’

Hannah Gersen

‘Sandra was stuck at the traffic lights where route forty hit the turnpike. She was thinking about strawberries.’

Erin McMillan

‘Light rose over Mama’s tanned arms, Keller’s dirty hair. The air was thick with colour and swirling dust, and we were still, suspended in it.’