"At last I felt like I knew what all the fuss was about" Neil D.A. Stewart on palace life in Jaipur
"The girls had ironed hair that hung lower, it seemed in some cases, than the hems of their dresses"
"I’ve always viewed the idea of going on a cruise ship as similar to checking in to jail for a week"
"As a design destination, it’s already moving at warp speed"
Neil D.A. Stewart picks out 2018’s greatest new books
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"Sabrina is a book about a very twenty-first century tragedy. It’s about how death is reported, mediated, sensationalised, politicised"
Mil is Peruvian wunderkind Virgilio Martínez’s high-wire, high-altitude new endeavour
"These unnerving stories resonate in – or haunt – the mind long after reading"
"When I go to the toilet, I happen upon a waitress spraying copious amounts of stain remover upon the man whose chinos she has spilled food all down"
