• Tom Paulin on Belfast and its vernaculars
• An Irish epilogue by Helen Lewis
• George Watson’s countries of the mind
• An extract from W. G. Sebald
• Wendell Berry’s thoughts in the presence of fear
• Chris Agee on the Good Friday Agreement
• One of Hubert Butler’s uncollected essays
• Translations from the Arabic
• A parable for the New Europe
• New poetry and prose by Seamus Heaney, Harry Clifton, Deirdre Madden, John Gray, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Daniel Tobin, Samuel Menashe, Neal Ascherson, Tim Robinson, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, John Burnside & others
• PLUS: “Portraits of Writers”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by John Minihan

plus much more…

• Michael Longley on “Songs for Dead Children”
• Essays on The Good Friday Agreement by Paul Arthur, Patricia Craig, Monica McWilliams, Paul Arthur, John Gray, John Wilson Foster, Edna Longley, Iggy McGovern, Gerard McCarthy, David Park, Jean Bleakney, Carlo Gébler, Anne Devlin, Brice Dickson, Robert McDowell, Ed Moloney, Mathew O’Toole, Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Andy Pollak & Glenn Patterson
• Roy Foster and Nigel Lewis on Europe’s Tectonic Plates
• Poems by Tom Mac Intyre, Moya Cannon, Ruth Carr, Harry Clifton, Kerry Hardie, Gerard Smyth & Ciarán O’Rourke 
• Philip Knox, Jennifer Kerr, Stephen Dornan, Stephen Elliott & Noel Russell on the youthful aftermath of the Agreement
• Chris Agee’s “Weather Report: Good Friday Week, 1998”
• Evelyn Conlon, Matt Kirkham, Peter Geoghegan, Natasha Cuddington & Frances Byrne on boundaries, borders & maps
• Manfred McDowell on the secrets of 64 Myrtlefield Park
• Art Hughes in praise of Belfast and its writers
• PLUS: “Writers of Belfast”: A remarkable portfolio of paintings by Neil Shawcross

ON THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

• Ruth Padel on “A Patch of Moonlight” in India
• Morten Strøkness offers “A Tourist’s Guide to Norway”
• Other new essays by Malachi O’Doherty, John Wilson Foster, Muireann Charleton and Niamh Morritt 
• New poems by Greg Delanty, Moya Cannon & Ciaran O’Rourke

PANDEMIC

• Chris Agee’s “Secular Prophecies”
• Robert Alan Jamieson & Alec Finlay on falling ill
• Amanda Thomson’s “Biding”
• John Glenday’s “Love”

INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS

• Sean Lysaght on the Mayo Wilds
• Garry Mackenzie & Meg Bateman on Ben Dorain
• “The Corniche Carriage Clock: A Sequence” by John F. Deane
• New poems by Chris Preddle, Simon Ó Faoláin & Benjamin Keatinge

MODERN TIMES

• Gabriel Rosenstock on “The Irish Problem”
• Four love poems by Matt Kirkham
• Gerry Cambridge on “The Identitarian Delusion”
• Chris Benfry & Sven Birkerts on “Serendipity”
• “Varieties of Islam” by Jacob Agee
• Sacha Baron Cohen on The Silicon Six
• New short fiction by Slavenka Drakulić

PORTFOLIO

• “The Two of Them”, celebrated cartoons by Tisja Kljalović Braić

and many others

• Tim Robinson on the death of Irish placenames
• Susan Sontag on literature as freedom and the emergence of American empire
• An excerpt from Brian Friel’s new play
• New fiction by Robin Glendinning and Askold Melnyczuk
• “Zen Wisdom” poems from Vietnam
• Essays by Chris Arthur, Gerald Dawe, Fred Marchant and Gabriel Rosenstock
• New poems from Paul Muldoon, Sarah Maguire,Charles Wright, Moya Cannon, Gary Allen & Michael Hamburger
• PLUS: “Landscapes of Absence”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Paul Seawright

plus much more…

• Gary Snyder on ecology and the New World Disorder
• Casey Walker on the evolutionary dangers of biotechnology
• Two Irish addresses by Julia Kristeva
• Poems and prose from Germany
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill on folklore and the oral tradition
• Essays by Michael Viney, Tim Robinson, Enda McDonagh, Gerald Dawe, Cathal Ó Searcaigh & Chris Agee
• New poems from Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, Sarah Maguire, Francis Harvey, Bernard O’Donoghue, Hugh Dunkerley & John Burnside
• PLUS: “Field Work”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Rachel Giese Brown

• Sven Birkerts on self in the information age
• A short story by William Trevor
• Brendan Simms on Dick Spring and Bosnia
• Rilke in the Irish of Máire Mhac an tSaoi
• Kafka’s mouse
• Translations from the Turkish
• John Berger on the erosion of place
• Chris Agee on a day with the VJ
• New poetry and prose by Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Harry Clifton, Louis de Paor, Francis Harvey, Michael Longley, Rita Kelly,Tom Mac Intyre, Robin Glendinning, Moya Cannon, Richard Murphy & others
• PLUS: “Towards a Military Sublime”, a remarkable photographic portfolio by Simon Norfolk

plus much more…

• Hugo Hamilton in the footsteps of Heinrich Böll
• A short story by Francis Harvey
• David Edgar on the state of British theatre
• Beachcombing with Michael Viney
• Tim Robinson on the sea and ourselves
• Lorca in the Irish of Máire Mhac an tSaoi
• Slavenka Drakulic on language, shoes and cakes, and David Albahari on frontiers
• Aidan Carl Mathews in prose and poetry
• Leslie Van Gelder on love and death
• New poetry and prose by Peter Sirr, Leontia Flynn, John F. Deane, Gerard Smyth, Glenn Patterson, Patricia Craig and Michael Longley & others
• PLUS: “Marine Micrographs”, a remarkable photographic portfolio of sea life