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Summer in the city

Inhibitions are lost, tempers flare, and anything seems possible… Novelists including Edmund White, Jo Nesbø and Elif Shafak remember life‑changing summers in the cities that made them

14 August 2021

  • Illustration of a basketball game in New York

    Summer in the city: Edmund White on sex and dancing in 60s New York

  • A school playground with a basketball basket and table tennis table in Oslo, Norway

    Summer in the city: Jo Nesbø on playing football alone in Oslo

  • A woman riding a bicycle and the Berliner Fernsehturm reflected in a puddle on the street.

    Summer in the city: Lauren Oyler on a bike accident in Berlin

  • An illustration showing a young woman and her grandmother's face reflected in kitchenware

    Summer in the city: Avni Doshi on moving to Mumbai

13 August 2021

  • Illustration showing crowds of people around a yellow minibus in traffic

    Summer in the city: A Igoni Barrett on a rainy bus ride in Lagos

  • The Fener neighbourhood in Istanbul

    Summer in the city: Elif Shafak on a night of disaster in Istanbul

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