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3 weeks ago | 
standard.co.uk | Hanif Kureishi
CommentHanif Kureishi1 minute agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics.
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2 months ago | 
nybooks.com | Florian Illies |Tony Crawford |Hanif Kureishi |David Chaffetz
Toffler in China The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.
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2 months ago | 
hanifkureishi.substack.com | Hanif Kureishi
Thank you for reading The Kureishi Chronicles. As I continue to write via dictation with the help of my family, your support means everything. Your contributions go towards my considerable care needs. If you enjoy my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber—it truly makes a difference. (Photograph: Tracey Emin, And It was Love (2023). © Tracey Emin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd)My friend Peter has prostate cancer; his wife has lung cancer.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
hanifkureishi.substack.com | Hanif Kureishi
Thank you for reading The Kureishi Chronicles. As I continue to write via dictation with the help of my family, your support means everything. Your contributions go towards my considerable care needs. If you enjoy my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber—it truly makes a difference. Carlo is on an exotic holiday in Thailand with his mates, leaving me behind with Sophie, my new temporary assistant.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
lithub.com | Hanif Kureishi
On Boxing Day, in Rome, after taking a comfortable walk to the Piazza del Popolo, followed by a stroll through the Villa Borghese, and then back to the apartment, I had a fall. Article continues after advertisementSitting at a table in Isabella’s living room with my iPad in front of me, I had just seen Mo Salah score against Aston Villa. I was sipping a beer when I began to feel dizzy.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
msn.com | Hanif Kureishi
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
standard.co.uk | Hanif Kureishi
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Hanif Kureishi |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
Refashioning his life after an accident—with grace, dignity, and black humor. In 2022, Kureishi, then 68, collapsed at his partner’s apartment in Italy, partially breaking his neck and suffering spinal nerve damage and resulting tetraplegia, a near-complete paralysis of his hands, arms, and legs.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
hanifkureishi.substack.com | Hanif Kureishi
Thank you for reading The Kureishi Chronicles. As I continue to write via dictation with the help of my family, your support means everything. Your contributions go towards my considerable care needs. If you enjoy my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber—it truly makes a difference. If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
boundlesslit.substack.com | Hanif Kureishi
Writers get used to spending a lot of time alone, thinking stuff over, feeling moody. Indolence is indispensable, I have to remind my agent. When I lived in West Kensington between the mid-seventies and the late eighties, after I finished writing for the day at five o’clock, I would trot down to the Three Kings on North End Road. It was always pretty empty. I’d read the papers and drink a couple of pints with the other ghosts, old men in tired suits. It became a habit.
