Literary London
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson’s cartoons appear regularly in the Guardian, the Times, the Daily Mail and other publications. In 2001 he was appointed London’s first Cartoonist Laureate by Mayor Ken Livingstone, for which he receives one pint of beer per annum. His maps of literary London appeared in Granta 65.
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The Secret Pattern
Aube Rey Lescure
‘My father said there is fate and destiny governing each of our paths, of individuals and of nations, and this only the dead may know.’
Aube Rey Lescure on returning to China.
In Her Room
Wang Anyi
‘It would be wrong to say she hasn’t experienced life. Instead, it would be more apt to describe her as someone whom time has slipped by without leaving the slightest trace.’
Fiction by Wang Anyi, translated by Michael Berry.
Images of Women
Elvira Navarro
‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’
Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
International Soul Cultist
Toye Oladinni
‘They started out as fraternities, the cults. Poorer students wanted strong networks, like the ones boarding school pupils had already.’
Fiction by Toye Oladinni.
Podcast | Wang Xiaoshuai
Wang Xiaoshuai
‘It’s more like painting. It’s not like a film.’
Wang Xiaoshuai on the evolution of Chinese cinema and the challenges faced by those working at the vanguard of independent film.
Beginning and End
Lukas Maisel
‘If she really knew how beautiful she was, she would hardly have met up with him, so it was best not to tell her.’
Fiction by Lukas Maisel, translated by Ruth Martin.
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