Issue 12, Spring 2009: Ego. The self seeks a home. Part personality, part referee, it feeds on action, melts in care and refines the noblest host. If shown the door, it makes room for hawks and cherubs, emperors without empires, and a world where every detail counts.
In this issue
- John Leigh Barnes, Untitled
- Nick Blyth, Untitled
- Paul Davis, Untitled
- Fernando del Paso, Vienna, sole city for an emperor so frail
- Brian Finke, From the series 'Most Muscular'
- Paul Fryer, Untitled
- John Gray, Slowly ascend to circle and see like a hawk
- Yu Hua, In a sea of swallowed wails
- Jaki Jo, Untitled
- Ben Jones, Untitled
- Davy Jones, Untitled
- Sam Kaprielov, The Last Parasite
- Deborah Levy, Lynne's Charisma™
- Greil Marcus, A vast country of mirrors
- Simon McBurney, Between servant and mistress, over and over
- Robert Menasse, Like a cherub, wholly unready
- Daniyal Mueenuddin, About a burning girl
- Henry Obasi, Untitled
- Ulla Puggard, Untitled
- Anna Richards, Straight from a hyena's womb
- Vincenzo Ruggiero, Still ruthless boys of Troy
- George Szirtes, Drunk and stupid and bold enough to dare
- Gonçalo M. Tavares, Hey, balloon, wait a minute
- Cheryl Taylor, Untitled
- James Tye, The Toreros of Bogotá
- Dan Williams, Portraits
- Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott, Wise men don't ever bow down
- Sean Aley
- Jocelyn Bain Hogg
- Mike Chavez-Dawson
- Jeff Fisher
- Kai Nødland
- Manilo Orobello
- Cristovão Tezza
- Yasutaka Tsutsui
- Dubravka Ugrešić
