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Grief’s Garden
Caroline Albertine Minor
‘I imagined his journey out of the coma as an increasingly painful ascent through dark water.’ Translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight.
On Being French and Chinese
Tash Aw
‘We were trapped in a sort of double prison: by poverty in Europe, and by China and its expectations of us.’
Marie Darrieussecq | On Europe
Marie Darrieussecq
‘There is a Europe of life and a Europe of death, on the mass graves of which we perpetuate a dream.’ Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale.
Itinerant
Andrew Miller
‘Was this an adventure or was I in trouble? At what point did one begin to shade into the other?’
Michael Hofmann | On Europe
Michael Hofmann
‘For all its flimsiness, the cage takes itself terribly seriously, restricting access, glorying in the name of Fatherland.’
The Poetics of Trauma
Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson
Swedish poet and psychoanalyst Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson on trauma, silence and linguistic analysis of asylum seekers. Translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves.
Binidittu
Nicola Lo Calzo & Daisy Lafarge
‘It’s perhaps a truism that acts of devotion both make and unmake the devotional object.’ Daisy Lafarge introduces the photographs of Nicola Lo Calzo.
Orhan Pamuk | On Europe
Orhan Pamuk
‘In the part of the world where I come from, Europe is not just an ideal and a beautiful dream’ Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
Six Kilometres
Adam Weymouth
‘Migration will not stop: if there is a single lesson to be taken home from Lesbos it is that.’
Jacqueline Rose | On Europe
Jacqueline Rose
‘We will get nowhere in understanding the present crisis unless we, as Europeans, are willing to look into the dark heart of ourselves.’
