A new issue of Open Letters Monthly is out. From TLS, fifty years after the publication of Ian Watt's seminal work, The Rise of the Novel, a look back to the review of this "penetrating study of the intellectual and social conditions which produced a new literary form". From The Believer, an interview with Pankaj Mishra, author of An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond. The ability to see and not to see: A review of A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V S Naipaul (and an interview). From Sign and Sight, the impertinent muse: Ina Hartwig meets Ann Cotten, the Austrian star of Germany's poetry jet set. William Gibson's Spook Country is threatening to completely overhaul the way literary criticism is conducted.

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