‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’
Autumn 22 Five Dials·12th December 2022The Everything List by Mattie Lubchansky Cured of England by Binyavanga Wainaina Five Poems by Jee Leong Koh...Back Issues
Summer 22 Five Dials·21st June 2022Fiction You Will Be Strange, But You Won’t Be Strange Alone by Eloghosa Osunde Two Poems Jay Gao...Back Issues
Spring 22 Five Dials·23rd March 2022The Everything List Cyril Husbands shares with us everything he’s read, watched and heard in the last month...Back Issues
The Cow and the River / Genesis / The Drum Speak of the Boy / The Boy and the River Gboyega Odubanjo·23rd July 2021Four poemsSummer 21Verse
The Everything List So Mayer·19th April 2021Five Dials asked So Mayer to send us an omnivorous list of everything, or almost everything, they’ve consumed in the previous month.ListsSpring 21 | Emerging
The Year of Reading Darkness Erika Hagelberg·18th January 2021In his 1994 book, published in English in 1997 as Literature or Life, Jorge Semprún recalls how, a...Number 58 | RediscoveringReportage
Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It? Miss Major·2nd May 2023For more than fifty years, Miss Major has played the crucial role of surrogate mother and grandmother to...InterviewsSpring 23 | Debuts
‘The book is inflected by a general sense of apprehension that we all have at present – an awareness of the possibility of world-ending events.’ Missouri Williams·21st June 2022The first thing you’ll need to know about Missouri Williams’ The Doloriad is that an environmental disaster has...InterviewsSummer 22 | Debuts
Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison Dan White·24th March 2022In the summer of 2014, author Dan White spoke separately to Toni Morrison and to Angela Davis about...InterviewsSpring 22 | Mementos
IC3 at 20 Five Dials·10th December 2021IC3 contributors reflect on the original publicationAutumn 21Interviews
‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’ Natasha Brown·23rd July 2021Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a concise, fragmentary novel that runs to 100 pages. Within these tight constraints she...InterviewsSummer 21
A kind of letting go Kayo Chingonyi·19th April 2021I’m very taken with the subjunctive in all things historical. What are the other possibilities and tributaries that branch off from what happened?InterviewsSpring 21 | Emerging