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Domp-Domp
Ben Ratliff
‘There’s Bo Diddley. Big hips, pointy shoes, glasses. A gap between his teeth, and a bow tie, in 1965.’
Parrot
Peter Carey
‘You might think, who is this, and I might say, this is God, and what are you to do?’
The Encirclement
Tamas Dobozy
‘Teleki would gasp and sputter and grow red in the face and the audience would love it.’ Tamas Dobozy in Granta 107
From the Journals of Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
Mahmoud Darwish
‘I’m alive even though I feel no pain.’
The Rule of Tagame
Kenzaburō Ōe
‘Kogito was lying on the narrow army cot in his study, his ears enveloped in giant headphones, listening intently.’
Beginning, End | New Voices
Jessica Soffer
‘I walked behind you. You led the rallies. I lost my mother. You rubbed my back.’
Proximity People
Jonathan Lethem
‘People who unfriend their friends while friending their unfriends. People who do not acknowledge the person. Persons who are not personal.’
Two Tides
Eleanor Catton
‘The harbour at Mana was a converted mudflat, tightly elbowed and unlovely at any tide but high.’
American Subsidiary
William Pierce
‘He was typing up another proposal for robots that would replace human workers in an engine factory.’