Issue 17, Summer 2010: Action. You can joy ride, speed-think, meditate, procrastinate, gamble on tit for tat, take courage or detach yourself serenely: you can steal some life from living. Or you could draw a bow, wait and whistle.

John Gray

commends futile endeavour over the rigours of sloth

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Jorge Luis Borges

longs for tempered lucid fatalism in old Buenos Aires

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Francisco Goldman

lets a vigorous hero run for modest aims

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Kirsten Reed

is stuck on a loner who only wants to drive on

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Jonathan Raban

celebrates the wit of imposing artifice in London and Seattle

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