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I Have Called You By Your Name
I. Hvalfjörður
I’d promised Sam whales, a substitute for his Mum who was off on holiday with her new boyfriend. Sam knows all about whales....
Cultural Readings of the Refugee Crisis
In jeans and a t-shirt, demurely slouching at the end of a table of prominent and impassioned speakers, Hassan Akkad cuts an inconspicuous figure....
Rain When it Falls on Bracken
Rain when it falls
on bracken silkily
is like a sea of sounds
and you are deep among them
so deep you cannot
fathom how you came
to be here...
Pigeon Feathers
At the time the boy had no idea that this was the last thing they were doing as a family.
He was the one who...
Hardwrought Works
War Music, Christopher Logue, Faber, 2015, edited by Christopher Reid, 341pp £20 (hardback)
Spills, Angela Leighton, Carcanet, 2016, 183pp, £12.99 (paperback)
Homer’s Iliad has been adored...
My London
Navtej Sarna is an Indian writer and diplomat. He is presently India’s ambassador to the United States. This is the twenty-second article in our...