Number 20
Morgan Meis on Guru, Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes, and Jon McGregor on footnotes. Plus, Adam Leith Gollner, Amber Qureshi from Fukushima, Alain de Botton, and Keith Ridgway on literary agents.
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Number 19
Almost a how-to. Featuring Louis Theroux, Arthur Bradford, Heidi Julavits, Alexandra Styron, Tucker Nichols, Darin Strauss, Kevin Baker and Katha Pollitt. Plus John Kenney has 'the talk' with his dad.
Number 15
La belle province. Contributions from Gil Courtemanche, Michel Vézina, Gaston Miron, Émilie Andrewes, Leonard Cohen, David Homel, Rawi Hage, Mireille Silcoff and Madeleine Thien. Art by Julie Doucet.
Number 13
Featuring contributions from members of LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The Weakerthans, Luna and Bloc Party. Plus Ryan Adams, Sam Lipsyte, Mohsin Hamid and art from Raymond Pettibon.
Number 12
The Utterly Broken Britain issue. Featuring artwork from Paul Davis, a list from Ernest Hemingway and reportage from Dan Hancox. Plus Jeremy Gavron, Brenda Walker, Colin Elford and James Robertson
Number 11
Roberto Bolaño, Paul Murray, Jon Savage and new poetry from Melissa Broder. Alain de Botton dispenses advice and Raymond Chandler reveals some unused book titles. Launched at Wilton's Music Hall.
Number 9
More fiction than non. David Shields, Helen Oyeyemi, Jonathan Coe, B.S. Johnson, Shane Jones, Rainer Maria Rilke, Philip Langeskov and Daniel Kehlmann. And a report on the booksellers of Saigon.
Number 7
Memoir and memory. Featuring the incomparable Diana Athill, poetry by Paul Farley, Elna Baker on Mormonism, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh at the airport, Jamie Brisick, Bernardine Evaristo and Paul Ewen.
Number 6
The Obscenity Issue. Featuring John Mortimer, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, NWA, Jerry Heller, Art Spiegelman, Arundhati Roy, Steve Toltz, Bobby Gillespie and four Danish cartoons.
Number 5
On translation and Sebald. The collected maxims of Sebald, Joe Dunthorne, Roger Deakin, Anthea Bell, Kurt Weill, Alain de Botton and poetry from the one and only Stephen Dunn.
Number 3
Cheryl Wagner from rebuilt New Orleans, David Rakoff on Annie Hall, Jonathan Safran Foer on R.B. Kitaj, plus Sheila Heti, Luke Wright, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob and Roberta Smith.
Number 2
Nature writing, but not the kind you'd expect. Robert Macfarlane, Jay Griffiths, Benjamin Markovits, Arthur Bradford, Roger Deakin, Alison Macleod and even Raymond Chandler.