“Hardly a day passes when I don’t look on this extraordinary twist of fortune with grateful bafflement, and I tell any despondent writer I meet to hang on, teeth gritted, and wait for a kindly storm.”
Sarah Perry
SHORT STORIES
Tom Barbash: Balloon night
Andrés Neuman: A mother ago
CONTEXTS
Aaron Thier: Here be sea monsters
Bilal Tanweer: This scatter must be gathered
Emily Gould: Claudine
Megan Abbott: The body speaks
Ben Ambridge: Reading and righting
Sandra Newman: Be how it begin
ON FILM
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s damaged hero
Gayle Forman: Sonata no.3
INTERVIEWS
Nikesh Shukla: Superhumour
Erwin Mortier: History is debate
A WRITER’S LIFE
Patricia Ferguson: Biblio bibelots
David Bezmozgis: Derealization
Neil Bartlett: Abracadabra!
Greg Baxter: Grounded and up in the air
WRITERS’ PATHS
Sarah Rayner: Gimme a break
Sarah Perry: Lightning strikes
Jon Walter: Setting sail
PICTURE STORIES
Gavin Maxwell and Mark Adlington: An instinct to play
FAVOURITE STORIES
Karin Altenberg: Breece D’J Pancake’s ‘Trilobites’
EXTRACTS
Mario Sabino: Murder symptoms
Erwin Mortier: Swarms and sorrows
FICTION 500
Andrés Neuman: On destiny
NEW VOICES
Brittney Inman Canty: No subject
TIPS FOR WRITERS
Monique Roffey: Stay flexible
BOOKANISTA RECOMMENDS
Jo Walton: Different incredible things