

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.
More about the author →‘Very often, family memories from Soviet citizens who lived through the first half of the twentieth century are limited to a couple of letters, and perhaps one or two photographs or documents, hidden in a biscuit tin or tucked away in an old briefcase up in the attic.’
‘The way I write in general is basically just to move, in as a quiet-minded a manner as I can, toward what I feel as heat.’
‘There, behind glass panes separating you from the good children, from life itself, you are kept company by your dread.’
‘The features and expressions were uncannily contemporary. Some seemed to be mirror images of the people I had seen at the protest in Piazza del Gesù.’
‘But only a city without people is immune. Only a city in which nothing circulates, nothing changes hands, nothing flourishes.’
Lisa Halliday introduces the photography of Wiktoria Wojciechowska.
‘It was at sundown on New Year's Day 1954 that Claire Hathaway began to feel embarrassed by her new television set.’
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