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Interview with Zadie Smith

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Issue No. 15

Jennifer Hodgson

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Issue No. 15

Zadie Smith’s biography is one of contemporary writing’s fondest and most famous yarns of precocious and meteoric literary success. As a student at Cambridge...

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Issue No. 15

A Weekend With My Own Death

Gabriela Wiener

TR. Lucy Greaves

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Issue No. 15

We all have tombs from which we travel. To reach mine I have to get a lift with some...

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Issue No. 15

Translation in the First Person

Kate Briggs

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Issue No. 15

IT IS 1 JUNE 2015 and I am standing outside no. 11 rue Servandoni in Paris’s sixth arrondissement. I...

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November 2015

Anatomy of a Democracy: Javier Cercas

Duncan Wheeler

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November 2015

20 November marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of General Franco. And while the insurrectionist’s victory in the...

Art

November 2015

None of this is Real

Anna Coatman

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November 2015

Rachel Maclean’s films are startlingly new and disturbingly familiar. Splicing fairy tales with reality television shows, tabloid stories, Disney...

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November 2015

Streets of Contradiction

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November 2015

Jerusalem has a remarkably cohesive identity, in architectural terms. Every building, from the Western Wall to the sleek hotels...

Interview with Dor Guez

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November 2015

Helen Mackreath

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November 2015

Dor Guez, artist, scholar, photographer, archivist, wants to avoid being classified, but it’s difficult not to fall into the trap. As an artist from...

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October 2015

War is Easy, Peace is Hard

Alexander Christie-Miller

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October 2015

At around midday on 19 July, Koray Türkay boarded a bus in Istanbul and set off for the Syrian...

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October 2015

Licence to Play

Thirza Wakefield

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October 2015

In his 1992 essay ‘In Search of the Centaur’, the writer and critic Phillip Lopate described the essay-film as...

Ninety-Nine, One Hundred

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Issue No. 1

Tess Little

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Issue No. 1

Sitting at a British Library desk in July 2006, a reader carefully consulted the fraying pages of A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile by...

 

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