Paul Ewen on the toll of expatriate life, John Ewen surveys the earthquake damage, fiction from Paula Morris, poetry by C.K. Stead, plus Ashleigh Young and Roy Colbert on the Dunedin sound.
Lydia Davis, Zadie Smith, Leanne Shapton, Chad Harbach, John Updike, Simon Wroe, Evgeny Zamyatin. Poetry by Rachael Allen. Plus: Philip Oltermann exposes the world's worst book.
Richard Ford, David Bezmozgis, Deborah Eisenberg, Leo Tolstoy, Jonas Hassen Khemiri and Jack Underwood. Patrick Loughran on troubled literature, and five paintings by Mark Beldan.
Peter Stamm, Lee Henderson, Nikesh Shukla and Tom Basden. Katharine Angel on Kate Bush. Paul Ewen serves breakfast to Sonic Youth, and Matthew De Abaitua survives Will Self. Plus, Caleb Klaces.
Fresh new poetry from the UK's finest: Tim Cockburn, Heather Phillipson, Nathan Hamilton, Emily Berry, Olly Todd, Luke Kennard, Oli Hazzard and James Brookes. It's all pedagogical.
In Greece. Poetry from Yiannis Doukas, Eftychia Panayiotou and Sam Riviere. New fiction from Christos Ikonomou and Panos Karnezis. Plus Laurence Howarth and Laura Gottesdiener on the cuisine of Occupy.
Are you looking for German literature? Judith Schalansky, Jan Brandt, Peter Stamm, Demetri Martin, Paul Maliszewski, Tilman Rammstedt, Marjana Gaponenko and Anthea Bell.
Fiction from Kevin Barry, Lydia Davis, D.W. Wilson and Nuala Ní Chonchúir. Poetry by Joe Dunthorne. And a charity matter: eleven orphaned short-story openings by Zsuzsi Gartner, looking for a home.
No A's. Bears in the forest by Amy Leach. Plus Banville speaks. Plus a lot of bears and two beautiful short stories by Bridget O'Connor. Plus David Rakoff and more bears, some drawn by Neal Jones.
One essay from Javier Marias on hating The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Why? You'll have to read the thing. Plus artwork by Tucker Nichols and Emily Robertson.