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This was beautifully written, and with such economy too.

Wonderful.

Thanks so much for posting this interview. I really enjoyed it!

this story reads like breathing and blushing at the same time. Simply gorgeous

Daniel the piece was really great. Got the idea of starting a pirate press in Italy: as an act of love for literature in this country where culture is more and more neglected.

I really enjoyed this interview, as well as Ms. Chung's story. I am looking forward to reading more of her work!

I love this. What a gorgeously written story that captures the purity of feelings we experience when we're waking up into our own selves and the intensity of those feelings. I especially love the bittersweet tone of loss and nostalgia that is intertwined with that of love and desire. I want this author to write me a love story!

In communicating her attempt to turn back time-- an impossible feat-- the speaker ages herself, widows herself. I wonder if M's heart broke a little, too.

Catherine describes mathematics as 'precise and elegant'; these two adjectives aptly describe her writing. Though controlled, this story is heart-wrenching because of the hopelessness the speaker conveys together with self-deprecation and the impossibility of turning back time.

Luminoso canto de la noche.

Veo en el
cielo un grupo
de estrellas
que llama el
futuro de una
noche encantada,
y una voz
candorosa que
triste regresa
regalando el
amor.

Francesco Sinibaldi

I find myself in greater awe of the Uncle than Borges. Undoubtedly well-written but the opening deserves special praise - it couldn't have been more perfect. Lovely.

The author has written a fine essay. The trouble is that he tries a little too hard to imitate the master -- a clearly improbable task. I also liked the silky-smooth English of the translator and I congratulate her especially because this must have been a difficult piece to translate.

Je sens une lueur.

Je sens une
lueur passer
avec toi où
le son disparaît
en donnant
l'harmonie de
la fugitive neige,
je chante la
poésie d'une
feuille désolée
comme le souffle
du soleil.

Francesco Sinibaldi

Requesting Granta to make more of these videos to help us, readers, get into writers' minds to understand their work rather than depend on horrible critics who not just confuse us but also mess up the entire beauty.

I am asking my friends in Kabul to get me a couple of those bags and will give them away as gifts here to friends. If this starts as a chain, Musafa will soon say "We are going international now, after the fall of Taliban."

I love Istanbul after reading Orhan Pamuk, it feels like I know the place. Every city must have a writer like him to help the world know, understand, love and embrace it like a native does.

Just delighted, and overwhelmed with the fluidity of the form of the words. Also it was like learning history without having to study it, what a piece of art.

A look for a pleasure.

Silently, in
my mind, a
little desire
and the warm
atmosphere
of a sullen
romance......

Francesco Sinibaldi

I am not usually a fan of Do This Do That poems, but being ordered about by the snow is intriguing. Best for me is the idea that the future is collaborative, that the road needs my guidance.

Love this poem and shared it on Facebook. Will order Murray's books so I can read more of his work.

Thanks for a thoughtful and well-written article. Its good to see the journals like Granta still exist. There are too few spaces for this type of sophisticated analysis of politically and historically complex issues... well done.

Enjoyed this article. Very effective in imparting a new angle on this topic. Direct and refreshing.

As a hugely conflicted omnivore, I take exception to the idea that the only reason consumers go for the less expensive choice is ignorance. There's no question that meat farming is absolutely disgusting and makes an enormous carbon footprint, yet your statement ignores what things cost. Subsisting solely on plant-based protein has yet to work for me, and presumably, countless others who've heard the "news." Though I buy cruelty-free products whenever I can afford to, those instances come fewer and farther between in this economic climate. That said, I'd love to see more people make the cruelty-free choice and maybe the prices will come down. Or maybe I'll finally be able to make the leap...

.A vegetarian puritanism based on the idea that eating meat is morally wrong whatever the conditions whereby that food is processed is in fact the real driving force in the debate.Women are reaching puberty earlier for a host of enviromental reasons and scientific evidence points to no one cause.The fundementalist ideology behind militant animal rights and vegetarianism means that even where animals reared in open pastures and fed with hay and other organic foodstuffs are used,this is seen as just as bad because at the end of the day the animal is a food source for humans .A countryside devoid of lifestock,a sort of open air leisure park for urban vegetarians is the ultimate goal of this warped thinking.Science points to meat eating and a mixed diet as the major driving force behind the evolution of complexity of the human brain.Vegetarians hate to be proven wrong but moderate meat eating is healthy and no respectable scientist would suggest that total vegetarianism is neccessarly the most healthy lifestyle choice.

You could have mentioned the controversed maronite genetic component of Kamal Jumblatt. It would have emphasized the historical druz/maronite love/hate relationship that shaped the Chuf until now. But your article is definitely realistic. Great work!

I enjoyed memoir. I consider your father, and thousands of others, as my 'professional ancestor.' I'm an engineer, you see. I look at the world through an engineer's eyes and seek the "how does that work" of everything.

As with your father, none of my offspring have followed a technical path. As with your father, they are doing (not doing?) so with my love and blessing.

What they do have, as I see in your writing that you have, is an appreciation for the father's way of relating to the world.

Yes, the differences do become gradually accepted ... and appreciated.

Thanks for the glimpse of one of my forebarers and his progeny.