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Number 22

Five Dials·29th July 2015

A journey into the forest. William Fiennes on the ash, Tracy Chevalier on the birch, Blake Morrison on the chestnut, Ali Smith on the Scots pine. Plus Philip Hensher, Kate Mosse, Maggie O'Farrell, Tahmima Anam and Susan Elderkin.

Back Issues Number 22 | Why Willows Weep

Number 2

Five Dials·28th July 2015

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.

Back Issues Number 2 | Out There

On Roydon Fen

Roger Deakin·19th July 2012

'This is a classic squatters’ landscape, and all the better for it. I always feel immediately at home in such makeshift places. Even the little palings have a Dickensian sort of attraction.'

Number 2 | Out There Reportage

Back Issues

Summer 23

Spring 23

Autumn 22

Interviews

Two Continents Back to Back

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.’

Fiction

For the Sake of Dangling Boys

Shalash Speaks . . .

It’s Me

Reportage

Who is Shalash the Iraqi?

Forgotten Traces

Mud

Verse

Three Poems

Four Poems

She’s on the Ching Again

Art

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

An Album Can Last a Day

Sinatra Sang in Sentences

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