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Five Dials Number 10

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, Bobby Gillespie and much on the matter of obscenity.
Five Dials Number 5

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Featuring Joe Dunthorne, W.G. Sebald, J.M.G. Le Clézio 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.
