“I need fiction for certain reasons. I need fiction to generate the intensity that I want, but I also don’t want what has occurred to be lost.” – Akhil Sharma
INTERVIEWS
Peter Buwalda: Expect fireworks
SHORT STORIES
EXTRACTS
Penelope Skinner: One lady owner
Jordi Punti: The four Christophers
John Spurling: Landscape in winter
NEW VOICES
FAVOURITE STORIES
Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘The Third and Final Continent’ by Kseniya Melnik
CONTEXTS
Rachel Carson: The global thermostat
Norman di Giovanni: Another side of Borges
PICTURE STORIES
Jörg Tittel and John Aggs: Ricky Rouse Has a Gun
A WRITER’S LIFE
Ned Beauman: Darkness and light
TOP TENS
Damon Galgut: A passage to Forster
TIPS FOR WRITERS
Patrick O’Keeffe: Exercise and experience
Julie Sarkissian: What you really want
DIARY
Jeff VanderMeer: My wilderness year
Isla Morley: Witching with ink
FICTION 500
WRITERS’ PATHS
Stephen Burke: A novelist by default
Dinah Jefferies: The ghost within
PRIZE DRAW
Win a signed copy of Andrea Gillies’ The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay
WORLD CUP UPDATE – 11 JUNE 2014
Brazil kicks: To celebrate the return of the world’s most popular sporting event to its spiritual homeland, we present new fiction and features by Vinicius Jatobá, Toni Marques, Vanessa da Mata and Ronaldo Wrobel, alongside our archive of Brazilian writers in translation.
