Why are Tayto crisps different on each side of the Irish border? An inquiry into the great potato-crisp partition [essay]

The life and times of Benjamin Fondane, ‘patron saint of all maudits’, from Moldavia to Auschwitz, via Paris [essay]

A young man, a prostitute, and a very expensive dress [fiction]

Chronicle of a term teaching English literature at an American university, with observations political, topographical and linguistic [diary]

Dispatch from a province whose prime minister is about to be indicted for war crimes [essay]

A young woman enters a mental hospital [fiction]

How the Velvet Revolution was shaped by the architecture of Prague – and why the revolutionaries never shot a bunch of Communists [essay]

Remembering sex, books and music – especially sex – on the eve of Franco’s death [memoir]