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Fixers

by Michael Griffin

[ july 10 ]

"'Money matters,' said Ajmal Naqshbandi, who met a gruesome death in April 2007, 'because these people don't have friendship. They don't know anything about it. They know you while you're working with them, but after that they don't even recognise you.'"

Granta days

by Alexis Lykiard

[ september 09 ]

"My qualifications for editing a long-established and prestigious literary organ were largely a matter of youthful enthusiasm, a love of language, and a vague yet somehow urgent desire to communicate with others through writing."

The end of certainty

by Stephen Chan

[ july 09 ]

The adventures that contributed to the writing of a book

The Holy Land

by Joe Palmer

[ april 09 ]

"Michal's folks were assured that she would be absolutely safe under the care of Dean Fallows and her corps of neutered monitors, chaperones and overseers."

The right to sleep in the Tompkins Square public library in 1935

by Harry Reynolds

[ march 09 ]

"In the winter of 1935, my uncle Lester entered the library to struggle through a hangover and he couldn't manage another block."

Sunday in the Park

by Harry Reynolds

[ february 09 ]

"When I was ten, I was a translator for my lip-reading, deaf mother..."

Tomorrow

by Joe Palmer

[ february 09 ]

Stoicism is practically taught to itinerant farmer families and they go on living tomorrow.

A Pinter Pause

by David Finkle

[ january 09 ]

A tribute to leisurely drama.

Al Birweh

by Alfred Corn

[ january 09 ]

An appreciation of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

"Darkness over all"

by Mike Jay

[ october 08 ]

John Robison and the birth of the Illuminati conspiracy.