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Five Dials Number 27b
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Pedagogic Poems.
Five Dials Number 27
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Things Simmering. New fiction from Greece. Plus Oyster cards, the cuisine of Occupy Wall Street, Proust and a very long list of memories.
Five Dials Number 26
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Berlin. London. And more.
Five Dials Number 25b
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The Cork Fiction Issue 2: Cork Harder. Featuring Nathan Englander, Frank O’Connor, Witi Ihimaera and more.
Five Dials Number 25
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The Big Corking Fiction Issue. Short stories by Lydia Davis, Kevin Barry, D.W. Wilson and three poems by Joe Dunthorne.
Five Dials Number 24
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The ‘B’ Issue. Featuring bears, John Banville, Amy Leach, Bridget O’Connor and a tribute to David Rakoff.
Five Dials Number 23
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Javier Marías
Five Dials Number 22
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Why Willows Weep and Other Tales From The Forest Floor
Five Dials Number 21
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Rock School! Contributions from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Raymond Chandler, Del the Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and members of Liturgy, Los Campesinos!, Beirut and Great Lake Swimmers. Launched from a Greek hilltop.
Five Dials Number 20
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General Interest. Published live at the Port Eliot Festival, 2011.
Five Dials Number 19
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The Parenting Issue. Heidi Julavits, Alexandra Styron, Louis Theroux, Darin Strauss and a bunch of nine-year-olds dispensing advice.
Five Dials Number 18b
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A Spring Postcard. Featuring five poems by Michael Robbins.
Five Dials Number 18
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A Bouquet for Sybille Bedford.
Five Dials Number 17
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In Jaipur. Kamila Shamsie, Tishani Doshi, Henning Mankell, Patrick French, and marriage tips from Mahatma Gandhi.
Five Dials Number 16
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Our Christmas card to you. Featuring Heathcote Williams and Mr Christmas himself, Anton Chekhov.
Five Dials Number 15
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The Québec Issue. Featuring Leonard Cohen, Gil Courtemanche, Roxanne Bouchard, Madeleine Thien and artwork from Julie Doucet.
Five Dials Number 14
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An essay by Orhan Pamuk. That’s it, that’s all.
Five Dials Number 13
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The Festival Issue. Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Sam Lipsyte, Ryan Adams, Martin Parr, Fiona Banner, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Murray, and a touch of Iggy Pop.
Five Dials Number 12
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The Utterly Broken Britain Issue. Tories in East London, death duels, circumcision, typewriters and dangerous snakes.
Five Dials Number 11
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Roberto Bolaño, Jon Savage, Paul Murray and more.
Five Dials Number 10
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A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others. For subscribers only. PS – Subscribe here for free.
Five Dials Number 9
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New writing from James Kelman, Helen Oyeyemi and David Vann, plus Philip Roth, Jonathan Coe and B.S. Johnson.
Five Dials Number 8 bis
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An addendum to our Paris issue.
Five Dials Number 8
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Toltz, Updike, Sontag, Dyer, Capote, Elkin, Davis, Camus and Ali Smith — on Paris.
Five Dials Number 7
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Featuring Ali Sethi, Paul Farley, Paul Ewen, Diana Athill and Ian Fleming.
Five Dials Number 6
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Featuring Ali Smith, Arundhati Roy, Paul Maliszewski, Bobby Gillespie and much on the matter of obscenity. John Mortimer, Art Spiegelman, Jello Biafra and even some NWA.
Five Dials Number 5
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Featuring Joe Dunthorne, W.G. Sebald, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Stephen Dunn, Leanne Shapton and quite a few translators.
Five Dials Number 4
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Featuring Noam Chomsky, Robin Yassin-Kassab and eleven writers remembering an election.
Five Dials Number 3
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Featuring David Rakoff, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sheila Heti and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Five Dials Number 2
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Featuring Roger Deakin, Jay Griffiths, Arthur Bradford and Raymond Chandler.
Five Dials Number 1
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Featuring Iain Sinclair, Alain de Botton, Rachel Lichtenstein and Gustave Flaubert.