Issue 13, Summer 2009: Horror. We ask the angels to hold us steady while we behead our fathers, flatten our people, sell our daughters and hang ourselves. And yet every now and then you pluck a daisy, and it breaks your heart.
In this issue
- Shalom Auslander, Someone stop this galloping hope
- Paul Burke, Memorial
- Lawrence Carroll, Sleepless nights
- Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness
- Jenny Diski, Dear little bird, do die now
- Jeff Fisher, Ex. 251a
- Rubem Fonseca, The game of dead men
- Disa Ingegerd Holgersson, Untitled
- Jaki Jo, Untitled
- Etgar Keret, Indigestion at heaven's gates
- Saadat Hasan Manto, Her body beyond pain
- Sophia Martineck, Horrorhouse
- Jason Orton, Glove, rug, bones, Dartford Marshes
- Justin Partyka, Piapot Reserve, Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan
- Tracy Quan, What's it all about, Daisy?
- Vincenzo Ruggiero, A Gorgon's head sprouting the loose limbs of civilians
- Albert Sánchez Piñol, Human steamrollers
- José Saramago, The leper on my chamber pot
- Samanta Schweblin, Killing a dog
- David Shrigley, Untitled
- Sasa Stanisic, My yellow tastes sweet
- Chris Steele-Perkins, Comfort women
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Her young, dark breath full of life
- Paul Verhaeghen, Equipped with easel, flute and precision gun
- Dan Williams, Portraits
- Tomoko Yoneda, Minefield – view of a mined football pitch, Sarajevo
- Philip Alcabes
- David Axelbank
- Jocelyn Bain Hogg
- Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
- Paul Davis
- Ben Jones
- Toby Glanville
- Leila Guerriero
- Sunny Singh
- Craig Taylor
