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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 Macleoad 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

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Interviews

‘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

Fiction

Tinhead

Ali Smith’s Quartet for All Seasons

‘Grand Designs’ (series 16, episode 4)

Reportage

None of the Above

Skin Hungry

Without Mourning

Verse

15 x 22 / Endgame / My Weapons Are Working People

Epithalamion

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

Art

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

Bleak Landscapes

An Album Can Last a Day

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