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MY EAR AT HIS HEART
From the archives
Aug 15
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Hanif Kureishi
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WHAT STORY ARE WE IN?
Searching for the shape of what happened
Aug 8
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Hanif Kureishi
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SHITTING SLEEPING WANKING EATING
NOW FREE: Age turns our former pleasures into torments.
Aug 6
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Hanif Kureishi
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SHITTING SLEEPING WANKING EATING
Age turns our former pleasures into torments.
Aug 1
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Hanif Kureishi
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July 2026
SUMMER WRITING COMPETITION
Win £250, a signed book, a personal video from me, and publication to 40,000 readers
Jul 29
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Hanif Kureishi
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MY BLUE MOOD
If our moods are like a weather system, I have spent a lot of time trying to balance this private climate
Jul 11
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Hanif Kureishi
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NECESSARY ENEMIES
NOW FREE: You need the early, intrusive parent to build the machine; you need the rival to test it
Jul 4
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Hanif Kureishi
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ON DESCRIPTION, OR HOW NOT TO SMOTHER YOUR STORY
NOW FREE: There is a key moment in a writer's life when you stop writing in the style you consider novels should sound like, and start writing to…
Jul 2
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Hanif Kureishi
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June 2026
THE LONG WALK
So, I’m upright again on this road, my legs fully extended and carrying me, one hard, small dragged step at a time.
Jun 27
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Hanif Kureishi
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ON DESCRIPTION, OR HOW NOT TO SMOTHER YOUR STORY
There is a key moment in a writer's life when you stop writing in the style you consider novels should sound like, and start writing to entertain…
Jun 20
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Hanif Kureishi
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TWO KEITHS AND THE WRONG PIANO
Those first five notes knocked me out; it was like receiving five firm blows to the head
Jun 13
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Hanif Kureishi
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NECESSARY ENEMIES
You need the early, intrusive parent to build the machine; you need the rival to test it
Jun 6
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Hanif Kureishi
68
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