Issue 14

How do you decide which book to read next? The best books often come by personal recommendation - that's exactly what The Reader offers you. The reason we name a particular book as 'the best' is often intensely personal too: because it connected to you somewhere deep below the surface, because it changed you, because it reminded you who you are or who you want to be. That kind of personal reading is at the heart of The Reader magazine. Delve into Issue 15, and see for yourself.

Raymond Tallis goes to the pub to watch the match and capture "the mystery of the dawning of human consciousness":
There are deeper things that unite man than Man United

David Constantine finds the links, real and etymological, between memory, gratitude and imagination in poetry:
…the more precisely a poet tries to to say the thing, the image, actually and concretely… the greater will be the poem's generalising power.

Mark Crees compiles his personal store of remembered poems, The Inner Anthology:
Public transport offers acres and acres of bleak, meditative space, ideal for flicking through The Inner Anthology and finding out what it has to say...

ALSO: New short fiction from Leeya Mehta and Karen King-Aribisala, poetry by Matt Simpson, Kenneth Steven and Peter Carpenter, review and recommendations of Mrs Oliphant's Hester, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Edith Wharton, Salman Rushdie and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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