Germs: A Memoir

Richard Wollheim, 15 April 2004

... all, I learned that it was only through the meticulous attention to such rituals that a man could hope to make his body tolerable to the world. But, as to the body itself, what I learned was strictly limited by the fact that, at a certain moment, my father invariably turned his back to me, and, manipulating the long tails that shirts had in those days, passed ...

Ghosting

Andrew O’Hagan: Julian Assange, 6 March 2014

... to explain why in a statement about sleaze. I said what we shouldn’t do was close our eyes and hope no one would notice. Making the ends meet in a moral sense was the project’s great conundrum, and he agreed to let me say what happened. On Wednesday​, 19 January, it rained all day. I was beginning to wonder about the time-wasting. I couldn’t ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... meals on the wards. Nadia could be seen at a high window with her husband, waving a flag when all hope was gone as the fire raged through the building later that night. Emergency calls made by the Choucairs suggest they believed to the last that the helicopters above the tower could save them. They died with their three girls, Mierna, 13, Fatima, 11, and ...