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The Way You Do It
Rachel Cusk
‘He merely desired to unpick her from the snag of what seemed vaguely to him to be her femininity.’
The Little Plate of Childhood
Todd McEwen
‘I truly hate food, I said to Isidor. I just can’t take it any more. F*** food!’
Several Anecdotes About My Wife
Gary Shteyngart
‘Fully clothed, we looked like your average young Brooklyn couple, second-rate hipsters in retro garb’.
Youth
J.M. Coetzee
‘There are two, perhaps three places in the world where life can be lived at its fullest intensity’
The Silence
Julian Barnes
‘Naturally the artist is misunderstood. That is normal, and after a while becomes familiar.’
Clara
Janice Galloway
‘She shifts, half in shadow. Whatever else, she's certainly a child. No one is with her.’
White Lies
Amit Chaudhuri
‘The guru looked discomfited, as if he’d been caught doing something inappropriate. At the same time, he looked somewhat triumphant.’
Dunkirk
Ian McEwan
‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’
Thailand
Haruki Murakami
‘Everything had gone well for her until her father died of cancer. Everything—without exception.’
A short story by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin.
This Side of the Oder
Judith Hermann
‘Time retreated, his dread crouched in the farthest recess of his mind.’
