Neil Burkey Mangroves
A strange trip to a mysterious cenote [short story]

Rob Doyle Winter in Paris
In the city of the jihadis, Houellebecq, and E.M. Cioran [essay]

Anna Maconochie Impostors
A case of mistaken identity [short story]

Philip Ó Ceallaigh In the town of Berdichev
Vasily Grossman and the purpose of repentance [essay]

Sally Rooney Even if you beat me
An ambivalent champion recalls life on the college debating circuit [personal history]

René Rosenstock Vampires
A reunion of treacherous lovers [short story]

Ian Sansom Crying into the emulsion: a diary for 2014
Reading Knausgaard in A&E and other misadventures [essay]