Featuring Jack Underwood, Luiza Sauma, Zadie Smith on Eminem, Javier Marías on Tristram Shandy, Martha Sprackland, Abi Andrews and our favourite London historian, Jerry White.
A collection of the best modern Dutch writing out there. Featuring stories and poetry from Nina Polak, Mustafa Stitou, Hanna Bervoets, Niña Weijers and Philip Huff.
Intrigue, adventure, romance, stationery. A film about the Hamish Hamilton archive, featuring Chandler, Sartre, Salinger, Thurber, Orwell and others. Music by Lights of Harmac.
Deborah Levy on David Bowie, Molly Prentiss makes dinner her ritual, two poems by Sophie Collins, new fiction (set in Toronto) by Jessica Westhead and a dispatch from a bike courier. Plus: smart people.
Jason Burke on Islamic militancy, Paul Theroux on Southern literature, Margaret Eby on A Confederacy of Dunces, Paul Murray on Irish finances and also the greatest transgendered surfer of all time.
Aislinn Hunter on handwriting, Jack Underwood on poetic intent, Brian Dillon reintroduces Cyril Connolly and Alexander Larman investigates the sexual and sybaritic abandon of Lord Rochester.