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  • Getting Past Coetzee

    by Hedley Twidle ...
    Ten years ago, I was commissioned by a famous poet-editor to write a profile of Coetzee for a London review. At the time, the offer was a big break, and could have led to great things. I was fresh out of university and the editor was high-up at Faber and Faber, a talent scout for The New Yorker. But it never got written.Instead of providing a controlled and judicious survey of the oeuvre, I found ... Read more

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  • Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie

    by Frances Leech ...
    At 5.37 a.m. my alarm goes off for the first time. By 6.09 a.m. I will be waiting on the metro platform. By 6.27 a.m. I pull open the swing door and duck under the pink curtain of the pâtisserie. I am probably last. In our tiny bakery on the other side of Paris, our cakes are made in the early morning, to preserve that freshness and crunch.Following in the footsteps of Rachel Khoo, Frances Leech ... Read more

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  • The Sacrifice

    How Bolivian miners extract their wealth

    by Thomas Graham ...
    2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘In the Andean cultural context, the mouth of the mine is a portal between worlds. Outside, the miners are Catholic. Inside, the human soul has escaped the jurisdiction of God.’In this searing investigation, Thomas Graham crosses the Bolivian altiplano and ventures into Siglo XX, once the world’s richest tin mine. Describing the ... Read more

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  • When I Edit with Assistive Technology

    by Carrie Jade Williams ...
    WINNER OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'I readjust the headset, make sure the microphone is right in front of my mouth and talk the computer to life because my words literally have power.'When I Edit with Assistive Technology is about writing when disease makes the act of writing very challenging - when getting the words into a computer in the right order is extremely ... Read more

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  • British Muslim Soldier

    by Adnan Sarwar ...
    It isn't nice but you're an animal, so you can do it, dressed in green and brown and black waiting to be attacked and smiling because you had bullets for teeth.Adnan Sarwar, a Pakistani boy from Burnley, joined the British Army – the White Man’s Army. Why did he do it? To prove he was as white as his friends? For Queen and Country? Or to work out who he was – British, Muslim or a Soldier? Perhaps ... Read more

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  • Checkmate or Top Trumps

    Cuba’s Geopolitical Game of the Century

    by Daniel Rey ...
    2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change – but in the age of post-Fidel, post-Obama and post-truth, the country’s future hangs in the balance as it finds itself facing a decisive endgame moment with the new US president. In this lucid reflection on Cuba’s decades-long stalemate with the US, Rey maps out the playing field and shows how ... Read more

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  • Your Tongue Is Still Yours

    Reflections On Language

    by Dur e Aziz Amna ...
    2019 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE'Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich,Phulaan de rang kaalay.(In the season of red roses,These flowers are turning black.)'Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how identity exists in the many layers between the two. Punjabi. Urdu. English. Arabic. Balti. Shina. Khowar. Wakhi.Dur e Azi... ... Read more

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  • A Community of Mortals

    by Alexandra Zelman-Doring ...
    What is it like to have someone die in your arms? Can we return from the dead? And why has nobody heard of therapeutic hypothermia?Forced to come to terms with doctors pronouncing her husband ‘clinically dead’, Alexandra Zelman-Doring embarks on an exploration of what death means to us and how we might face it. Initally she is overwhelmed by the difficulty of accepting the loss of a loved one, and ... Read more

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  • Eiderdown

    by Edward Posnett ...
    Over the centuries eiderdown has been coveted by the Vikings, Russian tsars and medieval tax collectors who accepted it as revenue. The plumage of a fat sea duck, eiderdown – treasured for its extraordinary lightness and insulation – now joins cocaine as an instrument of globalisation and commodity of the super-rich.In this revelatory essay, Edward Posnett travels to the Westfjords region of ... Read more

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  • Stranger in a Strange Land

    100 Days in the Credit Analysis Department of an Indian Bank

    by Abhishek Mukherjee ...
    2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEIn this sharp, witty essay, written from inside the Indian banking system, we witness the absurdities and mundanities of corruption and bureaucracy, set against a backdrop of modern urban India. In a personal battle with his moustachioed boss, Mukherjee illuminates a Kafkaesque system of compliance inherited from the British Raj and ... Read more

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  • Everybody’s Friend

    by Raghu Karnad ...
    Raghu Karnad’s “Everybody’s Friend” is a poignant pilgrimage to the military grave of a great-uncle, fallen defending the obsolescent Raj against the oncoming army of imperial Japan. The most brutal fighting unfolded on the unforgiving northeast Indian border with Burma, and Karnad takes himself and the reader deep into Nagaland to find the war graves of Imphal. There he broods without heavy ... Read more

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  • Highway Three

    On the road through Burma’s opium fields

    by E. S. Batchelor ...
    2019 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE‘Where are you going?The voice came again, and two figures appeared … It was clear that these men were not working for the government. They wore green uniforms, with the small red logo of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. As they walked, their rifles flopped from side to side.’In Myanmar, E. S. Batchelor travels the highland road ... Read more

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