'What is the wind, what is it.'
~ Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons
'Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.'
From the long denouement of George Saunders' profound and very moving treatment of the death of Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, Lincoln in the Bardo
'[...] grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who, by the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness, and thus let in the sun.'
~ George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’
We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King.
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'When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind [...], in every state that we imagine ourselves in.'
~ Thomas Bernhard - Walking, tr. Kenneth J. Northcott
'Let me sadly affirm that I did; it did; they were; she did.'
In awe of the exquisite arrangement of this paragraph from Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; a paragraph, like the novel itself, containing multitudes