Description
- In this issue:
- Charles Bukowski talks to Lucy Gray about John Fante
- Clayton Ruby on a visit from Jean Genet
- Kiran Desai in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
- Javier Marías on the death of a protagonist
- Arnold Schoenberg’s dictates on art
- Robert Hass on Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Ko Un, and Vasco Popa
- Sheila Heti tries to stay home
Poetry from James Arthur, Don Paterson, Ronna Bloom, Peter Dale Scott, and Jim Harrison - An entomological revelation from Vasco Ray
- Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Adichie in conversation
- Martha Baillie almost meets Joseph Wagenbach
- A letter from Robert Duncan
- Selina Hastings remembers Sir Hardy Amies
- Nelofer Pazira undercover in Afghanistan
- Pico Iyer under the influence of Jan Morris
- Jim Harrison has his fill
- Sarah Chase thinks on her feet
- Kitchen talk from Chimamanda Adichie
- Peter Glassgold’s Old English translations
- Photos and illustrations by:
- Martin Helmut Reis, David Hlynsky, Yves Berger, Vladan Nikolíc, Jeff Linell, Iris Häussler, Nelofer Pazira, Tereza Allen,and Abbey Huggan
