Lynn Barber

Truly inspirational: the hospital diary of Hanif Kureishi

‘My world has been smashed...and there is nothing I can do about’, writes Kureishi of the freak accident in 2022 that has left him paralysed. ‘But I will not go under. I will make something of it’

Hanif Kureishi. 
issue 02 November 2024
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