Television

Television

The television was showing the same American series we ourselves were watching in the Schweinfurth’s living room, such that, as I stood at the window, the image and the sound of the American series reached me simultaneously, but from two different sources,...
South of the Border, West of the Sun

South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You throw your plough aside and, your head completely empty of thought, you begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a...
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path that keeps the indent of footsteps. He had read from this one to Sam several times during the last two years, but the footsteps of his own childhood had dug deeper and the book opened on...
The Human Factor

The Human Factor

It surprised him, as though, in penetrating a familiar cave, on some holiday at the sea, he had observed on a familiar rock the primeval painting of a human face which he had always mistaken before for a chance pattern of fungi. And now you could read... The Human...
Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog

And the words enveloped him like an unrecognisable fart, saying: yes, oh yes, this is you, this is you. And now you could read... A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush But Beautiful The Pandemic is a Portal The Furious Passage of James Baldwin...