‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
‘Gama has defeated them all, and more, but how is he to be Champion of the World if this half of the world is in hiding?’
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Ariel Saramandi on her experience teaching in a lycée in Mauritius.
Fiction by Sidik Fofana, set in the South.
Kevin Maxwell on the police in the UK.
Morgan Parker and Rachel Long in conversation.
Poetry by Danez Smith, author of Don't Call Us Dead.
‘Write the story that unsettles and excites you, that keeps you coming back to your desk.’
‘The City of the city is jagged and spiky, tangled, twisted – burned down, paved over, rebuilt, unruly with wealth and poverty side by side, as they have always been.’
‘Once, early on, before he learned such things were never said, my brother approached a white boy in his class with my mother’s maiden name and said they must be cousins. The violence in my family’s home started a year or so later.’
‘Isn’t it sweet to look back at how my mind jumped to the most innocuous conclusion? That after so many years, at seventy-two, my imagination was still so naive?’
‘The coronavirus seemed to demand immediate responses to the questions we’d been struggling with for years.’
‘Nicaragua has always impelled its writers into politics, or exile, or both.’
