Aliss at the Fire — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Where are they now? Dropping to their knees in the streets. In fields. In kitchens. Stopping halfway through a kiss or a fight. Imagine getting it all back. Your daughter’s wedding. The first time you held your son. Bluebells. An ache builds in my throat that has nothing to do with the smoke.
Bridget Collins • The Binding: The most captivating novel of 2019
those hidden bruises suggested something more – an end to the stifling ordinariness of existence.
Hannah Kent • Burial Rites
Easily, he slept; and as he slept, the woman in the photograph took her arm from the pastor’s waist, and crossed the parched lawn towards the camera. Her black skirts, thickly beaded at the hem, obscured the view of Bethesda; then her fine and muddied boots came over the frame, and were first set squarely on the table, then one by one on the floor:
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