On Dean and Europe and the meaning of festina lente
A letter from the editor
Death in Spring
Colm Tóibín on a Catalan work of dazzling complexity
Hot Moon Goes to Europe
The spy thriller that just won’t — it actually can’t — end By Tom Basden
Do You Know Your Eurovision?
The Five Dials questionnaire By Chris Lochery
¡Qué tontos los ingleses!
The callousness of Brexit; the empathy of poets
By Martha Sprackland
The Terrible Prophecies
Yanis Varoufakis on the ill-defined discontent of Brexit
‘The Final Countdown’
Jonas Hassen Khemiri hears Europe
My Grandmother Arrives in the Home Counties
A poem by Will Burns
Journal of the Plague Year: America, June 2017-June 2018
An excerpt By David Shields
Portfolio
Jackie Morris paints the otters
Five Dials Horoscopes
Sophie Mackintosh reads the stars
Even Worstward, Oh (The Brexit Beckett Rag)
By Chris Power
Brits on the Water
Jamie Brisick on the changing waves in Malibu
Four Poems
André Naffis-Sahely
One Poem
Cesare Pavese
Reading Cesare Pavese
Elizabeth Strout on The Beautiful Summer
Downtown Beirut
Traveling to Lebanon with Anbara Salam
Military Fitness
The missing chapter from Joe Dunthorne’s latest book, The Adulterants
Little Bricks
Gavin Haynes inspects the architecture in Beckton, E16
Future Perfect
Nathalie Olah seeks out the singularity in WC1
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Ana da Silva on Patti Smith’s Just Kids
On Italian Cuisine
Russell Norman on spaghetti carbonara
The cooking column
Dean Allen makes soup
The final word
Najat El Hachmi on the language of dreams
Susan Sontag meets Thomas Mann
A remarkable short story
Five Dials 45 was made with the help of Visual Editions
