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The End?
John Barth
‘What do you do when your daily routine comes to a halt, when your latest achievement just might be your last?’
Detroit, 1966
Lynda Schuster
‘This is how it starts, my yearning to escape: with a snot-green triangular stamp from Qatar.’
Holy Solitude
Kong Yalei
‘I always think, either as a reader or as a writer, one person – anyone – can struggle against this filthy world by entering into a world of literature.’
Lessons from a Hustler
Peter Mountford
‘With Buck, pool was clearly an intellectual exercise and he was scarily cool at the table.’
Revolution Revived: Egyptian Diary
Wiam El-Tamami
‘This is what they don’t tell you on the news – about the pockets of normalcy that always exist, persist.’
Our Adder
Richard Kerridge
‘Our zoo needed something more thrilling, more dangerous, we had decided. We wanted an adder.’
Prison Echoes
Shahrnush Parsipur
‘When you are free, you inevitably feel compelled to act, but when incarcerated, you are powerless to do so.’
The Meaning of Zombies
Naomi Alderman
‘They’re the interchangeable anonymous people we encounter on our daily commute, those whose humanity we cannot acknowledge.’
Kidnapped
Scott Johnson
‘Sometimes, these sorts of details made their way into wire stories as bullet-pointed footnotes. Other times, the stories screamed into the lives of people I knew.’
