“Aesthetic experience, especially reading books, is something that is bounded; I mean you’re not in the world, you’re looking at a text, but the way you read the text, for most of us, is that we make pictures in our mind.”
Siri Hustvedt
INTERVIEWS
Michael Cunningham‘s feelings for snow
Siri Hustvedt unmasked
Joshua Ferris: Down in the mouth
Straight-talking Sadie Jones
Nicholson Baker’s smokes and mirrors
Kerry Hudson: Love and need
Jerry Pinto in full voice
Gong Ji-young: Dictators’ daughters
CONTEXTS
Michelle Lovric: Medusa myths
Andy Miller: So long, and thanks for all the towels
Kalyan Ray: Crossing bridges
Jon Stallworthy: War and imagination
Cristina Henríquez: Home
Tim Glencross: MA vs LON?
A WRITER”S LIFE
Mona Simpson: Hot coffee and no haiku
SHORT STORIES
Marina Keegan: Challenger deep
Tove Jansson: The rain
Ronaldo Wrobel: Mariano takes stock
POETRY
Peter Wyton: Unmentioned in dispatches
NEW VOICES
Nora Nadjarian: Not Etgar Keret
EXTRACTS
Fredrik Backman: Ove does his rounds
Marco Malvaldi: A whiff of murder
Vinicius Jatobá: The invention of futebol
Vanessa da Mata: Eve’s mango
FAVOURITE STORIES
Linda Mannheim: George Saunders’ ‘My Flamboyant Grandson’
Rivka Galchen: Any one from ten
WRITERS’ PATHS
Stephen Burke: A novelist by default
Laura McBride: Yaddo, Yaddo
DIARY
Andy Miller: To Penge and beyond
INFLUENCES
Harriet Lane: The tricycle man
Alafair Burke: Lawyers that thrill
PICTURE STORY
Matthew Shaw and Alison Bailey: Enduring war
TIPS FOR WRITERS
Jill Dawson: Ignore silly rules