Five Dials

A free literary magazine from Hamish Hamilton

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Five Dials·12th December 2022

The Everything List by Mattie Lubchansky Cured of England by Binyavanga Wainaina Five Poems by Jee Leong Koh...

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Five Dials·21st June 2022

Fiction You Will Be Strange, But You Won’t Be Strange Alone by Eloghosa Osunde Two Poems Jay Gao...

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Five Dials·23rd March 2022

The Everything List Cyril Husbands shares with us everything he’s read, watched and heard in the last month...

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Editor's picks

From the archive

The Cow and the River / Genesis / The Drum Speak of the Boy / The Boy and the River

Gboyega Odubanjo·23rd July 2021

Four poems

Summer 21 Verse

The Everything List

So Mayer·19th April 2021

Five Dials asked So Mayer to send us an omnivorous list of everything, or almost everything, they’ve consumed in the previous month.

Lists Spring 21 | Emerging

The Year of Reading Darkness

Erika Hagelberg·18th January 2021

In his 1994 book, published in English in 1997 as Literature or Life, Jorge Semprún recalls how, a...

Number 58 | Rediscovering Reportage

Interviews

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

Miss Major·2nd May 2023

For more than fifty years, Miss Major has played the crucial role of surrogate mother and grandmother to...

Interviews Spring 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 2022

The first thing you’ll need to know about Missouri Williams’ The Doloriad is that an environmental disaster has...

Interviews Summer 22 | Debuts

Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison

Dan White·24th March 2022

In the summer of 2014, author Dan White spoke separately to Toni Morrison and to Angela Davis about...

Interviews Spring 22 | Mementos

IC3 at 20

Five Dials·10th December 2021

IC3 contributors reflect on the original publication

Autumn 21 Interviews

‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’

Natasha Brown·23rd July 2021

Natasha Brown’s Assembly is a concise, fragmentary novel that runs to 100 pages. Within these tight constraints she...

Interviews Summer 21

A kind of letting go

Kayo Chingonyi·19th April 2021

I’m very taken with the subjunctive in all things historical. What are the other possibilities and tributaries that branch off from what happened?

Interviews Spring 21 | Emerging

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Autumn 22

Summer 22

Interviews

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

‘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.’

Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison

Fiction

It’s Me

Tinhead

Ali Smith’s Quartet for All Seasons

Reportage

Mud

None of the Above

Skin Hungry

Verse

A Caged Thing Feed / Naturalist

Self-Portrait as an Angel / Girls Later-Life Orgasm Ode / Maternal Ambivalence

15 x 22 / Endgame / My Weapons Are Working People

Art

On Art, Walking With Our Sisters and the Problem with Reconciliation

Bleak Landscapes

An Album Can Last a Day

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Autumn 22

Summer 22

Spring 22

Editor's picks

The Cow and the River / Genesis / The Drum Speak of the Boy / The Boy and the River

The Everything List

The Year of Reading Darkness

Interviews

Instead of a Plaque in the Sidewalk, How About the Building Next to It?

‘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.’

Toni Morrison on Angela Davis and Angela Davis on Toni Morrison

IC3 at 20

‘Shorter is expected to be less substantial. It feels arbitrary— why would length be correlated with impact?’

A kind of letting go

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