Olivia Laing on the dark histories and utopian dreams of the flower bed

Vicki Valosik gets submerged in the history of synchronized swimming

Jay Owens on the tiny particles that float through our lives

Tiffany Tsao on translating a beguiling Indonesian short-story collection

Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale)

The late, great Paul Auster on Stephen Crane

A brief look at a grand narrative