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Best Book of 2008: The Alphabet
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout on why Ron Silliman's The Alphabet is the best book of 2008.
Best Story of 1965: ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender on why Flannery O’Connor's ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’ is the best story of 1965.
Best Book of 2006: The Re-Emergence of Global Finance
Oliver Bullough
Oliver Bullough on why Gary Burn's The Re-Emergence of Global Finance is the best book of 2006.
Five Parties
Ned Beauman
‘The second year, I noticed before anyone else that the Coelophysis was trying to escape.’
Lady Neptune
Ann Beattie
‘The word money popped up like a bit of the ocean’s detritus riding in on a wave, but her lips formed the words ‘Merry Christmas’.’
About the Cover
Stanley Donwood
‘I took myself off to the woods, the fragments of the great forests that once spread over our continent.’
Saving Mesopotamia
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’
The Intoxicated Years
Mariana Enríquez
‘They cried as if they weren’t to blame for any of it. We hated innocent people.’
Robertus Heimric, Welcome Back
Upamanyu Chatterjee
‘He was the one survivor who remembered nothing.’