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‘I alone know a running stream
that is recovery partly and dim sweat
of a day-fever’
A poem by Rowan Evans.
‘Humour is a thread we hang onto. It punctures through the fog of guilt.’
Momtaza Mehri in conversation with Warsan Shire.
‘Something shifted in me that night. A small voice in my head said, maybe you can make a way for yourself as a poet here, too.’
Mary Jean Chan in conversation with Andrew McMillan.
‘There was to be an exhibition. There were lots of pictures like his, apparently – of waiters, pastry cooks, valets, bellboys.’
An essay by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 159: What Do You See?
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
A poem by Jason Allen-Paisant from Granta 154: I’ve Been Away for a While.
Colin Thubron is a writer and novelist, who has written primarily on Central Asia, Russia and China. His books include Among the Russians, Behind the Wall, In Siberia and Shadow of the Silk Road. In 2010 he became President of the Royal Society of Literature.
More about the author →‘The death of travel – and of the travel book – has been predicted for almost a century.’
‘In twenty or thirty years’ time, perhaps, a monument will be raised to the martyrs of Tiananmen Square, innocent harbingers of a more liberal age.’
‘If I had charted the most landlocked spot on earth, the arms of my compass would have intersected here, in China's far northwest.’
‘The old people had prepared a banquet for me - an extravagant spread of cold meats and dumplings which we ate with the prestige television blaring, and nobody watching it.’
‘The tombstones glimmered in the grass. But he felt only relief. The dead, tonight, were more companionable than the living.’
‘Governments think big; they think geopolitically. Human rights are irrelevant to geopolitics. This may kill us all in the end.’
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