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.

Mario Vargas Llosa

lets old men drink from virgins' breath

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Shalom Auslander

loses his nerve over America's slow maturing

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José Saramago

tracks down the dreadful roots of ripe imagination

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Paul Verhaeghen

unpicks our gift to destroy life with divine refinement

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Samanta Schweblin

joins the ranks of dog killers

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