Highlights include:
Exclusive! New fiction from Marilynne Robinson's novel Home. The author of Gilead and Housekeeping has kindly allowed us to reprint an exclusive extract from her latest novel. Definitely not to be missed.
Also, there's new poetry by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.
It's the four hundredth anniversary of John Milton's birthday and we celebrate this great event with essays by Brian Nellist and Jane Davis.
Plus, there is: the second installment of Mary Weston's short novel The Junction; Adam Phillips writes about Auden's magic; Laura Coyne is the latest ‘Poet on Her Work'; D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the novel for ‘Readers Connect'; and there is much in this issue for you gumshoes out there. Christopher Routledge adds to his occasional Crime Spree series with a piece on Dashiell Hammett, creator of The Maltese Falcon, and American crime writer Fred Zackel (Cocaine and Blue Eyes) joins in the praise for Hammett with an essay that reads like the voiceover of a film noir.