Joe Sacco’s books include The Fixer and Palestine. A longer version of ‘In the Milk Factory’, which was published in Granta 89, appeared in I Live Here, an anthology about refugees published in 2006 as a benefit for Amnesty International.
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‘Bolshevism, like most millenarian movements, proved a one-generation phenomenon.’
Yuri Slezkine on Soviet history and the generational arc of revolution.
‘Into the carrot-coloured bag, alongside my clothes, I put the box with Mama’s urn.’
An excerpt from Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter.
‘There was very little I could do in life except get dressed, smoke the correct cigarettes.’
An extract from Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery.
‘I’ve loved experiencing the page as a map, as something to be wandered across.’
Lee Lai on the function of page and panel in comics.
Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to human rights organisation Memorial.
‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’
An essay by Paul Auster.
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