The novelist's personal account of his campaign for the presidency of Peru. Plus: Alvaro Vargas Llosa as his father's press officer, Sergio Ramirez on the end of the Sandinistas, George Steiner on the end of the dream of communism, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow (part three).

In this issue

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Fish Out of Water
Alvaro Vargas Llosa: The Press Officer
Mark Malloch Brown: The Consultant
Sergio Ramirez: Election Night in Nicaragua
George Steiner: Proofs
Martin Amis: Time's Arrow (Part Three): The Conclusion
T. Coraghessan Boyle: Sitting on Top of the World
Graham Swift: Plastic
David Grossman: Cairo