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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing…

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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently wai…

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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doi…

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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without…

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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with t…

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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

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