The Reading Revolution Editor Philip Davis writes 'This is not simply a magazine any more, it is a campaign'.
New poetry by Les Murray, Connie Bensley and Tom Paulin, and John Greening writes the latest in our 'Poet on His Work' series
New fiction by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Richard Flanagan
Essays Catherine Pickstock on Tracey Emin, and Paul Kingsnorth of the Dark Mountain Project on the myths and stories that threaten our world
The Reader Gets Angry a searing indictment of teacher-training in this country from Gabriella Gruder-Poni
Interview with Liverpool composer Kenneth Hesketh
Recommendations from Adam Phillips and Frank Cottrell Boyce
Editor's Picks
In this issue Frank Cottrell Boyce gives us his own short story and also provides the first of The Reader's new occasional series 'Books for your Children' (Frank has seven). At the other end of the age-spectrum, Tom Paulin gives us his translation of Sophocles' blinded old Oedipus attended by his daughters, while Angela Macmillan launches her new regular reading list ('Books About') by starting with the theme 'Fathers and Sons'. We have the opening chapters of Richard Flanagan's new novel Wanting, new poetry by our Australian editor Les Murray, and a new guest panelist on the jury of Readers Connect.