Following her husband’s death, Anne Hosansky travels to Italy with a couple at the opposite end of their relationship: Robert, who spends two hours in front of a single fresco and Lenore, their Italian speaking interpreter. With novelistic skill, this memoir paints a tender yet funny account of being abroad and feeling out of place.
On the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, the pact of forgetting, and writing from the Peloponnese.
On travelling to Xinjiang province and the ethical duties of writing.
On writing as therapy for US veterans and the role played by the writer’s unconscious.
Travelling through south-west Turkey, Maxine and Stephen don’t expect company. But a surprise encounter leads a local stranger to reveal a secret from his past that he has never told anyone before.
Beginning in the woods of Wimbledon Common, Mathis Clément embarks on an associative journey of ideas, connecting religious relics to rituals of remembrance; our ecosystems of plastic to Rachel Whiteread’s art.
This extraordinary tale spanning almost a century is a blend of memoir, true crime and pure horror.
A professor uses her experience of teaching the Decameron to reflect on the new ways it has become relevant in 2020.
‘As a child growing up in Singapore, you’re constantly told that people are all we have – that human labour and effort were all we could use to drag ourselves out of poverty into the first world. We bloomed where others would not.’
‘I imagine myself climbing inside the glass vitrine in the gallery, which is a bit like a sarcophagus. I’d be hunched over in there, trapped with that sculpture, a headless plaster form.’