Fiction | Burma The Road to Wanting (extract) Wendy Law-Yone Eyes narrowing and flaring as though to focus his gaze, he seemed to be looking through me, past me, down his nose at me, trying to see beyond the obvious, to pick out some hidden detail. But whenever I tried to return his scrutiny, I came up against a stillness, an emptiness, in the glassy depths of his green-blue eyes.
Memoir | China Go South, Further South Liao Yiwu It's a hard life, being a writer. Over the past two decades I have interviewed more than 300 people at the bottom of society and chronicled their lives - particularly harsh lives because of disasters and tumultuous political campaigns. None of my books is permitted in China, but my writings have reached the internet and, despite attempts by the authorities to censor cyberspace, a growing audience at home.
Interview | United Kingdom Hanif Kureishi James Kidd We are all mixed race now – me, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton. In those days, you were despised if you were half-caste because people had this notion of purity. You could either be black or you could be white. The idea that you could be in between seemed like a dreadful mix-up.
