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Number 37

‘Others merely live, I vegetate.’
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.

Number 36

Landmarkings
Roger Deakin follows the swallows, David Quentin throws rocks in the sky and Robert Macfarlane lists glorious natural terms. Plus W.G. Sebald, Jay Griffiths and Rachel Lichtenstein.

Number 35

Richard McGuire Makes a Book
Outtakes, rough sketches, first ideas, one-offs, research frames, photographs, scraps of dialogue and washes of colour from the making of Richard McGuire's groundbreaking graphic novel, Here.

Number 34

Jokes / Not Joking At All
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nick Hornby, Stuart Evers, Emily Berry, Sigmund Freud, Tom Basden, Sunita Soliar and Kit Buchan. Excellent Irish fiction from Colin Barrett, plus paintings by Margaux Williamson.

Number 33b

Five Dials x @readwomen2014
Marguerite Duras, Deborah Levy, Zoe Pilger, Joanna Walsh, Anjum Hasan and Molly McCloskey. Plus Juliet Jacques on the woman in the portrait and new fiction from Eliza Granville.

Number 33

Five Dials x @readwomen2014
The first of our collaborations with @readwoman2014. Featuring Jenni Fagan, new poetry by Susan Barbour, fiction by Rachel Genn and Lauren Elkin on the complexity of the desperate theatre girl.

Number 32b

'wā tāpiri’
An addendum to our wildly successful New Zealand issue. An opportunity to publish Janet Frame and feature the artworks of Shane Cotton.

Number 32

New Zealand
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.

Number 31

Tricks of the Light
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.

Number 30

A Stranger Again
The Camus issue. Curtis Gillespie in Algiers, Deborah Levy on the death drive and a contribution from the man himself. Plus artwork by Zoo Project.

Number 29

Weight to lift
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.

Number 28

Heroes / Heroines / Other Part I
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.