We’re prolonging summer with another month of flip-flops, as international writers contemplate the reversals of various fortunes. On the air in Sarajevo and under the radar in São Paulo, in chilly garrets and overheated classrooms, tables turn, lives go topsy-turvy, and the only order is “Ģ����ý-face!”

Some great authors featured in this issue, including by Vladimir Sorokin (this is an afterword to The Queue, which is coming out this fall from NYRB, and which is fantastic), by Danilo Kis, and by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (I love, love, love repeating Machado de Assis’s name . . . just rolls off the tongue in a exotic, fun way).

There’s also an excerpt from Suzane Adam’s which recently came out from Autumn Hill Books, and a review of Ana Maria Shua’s from the ever interesting, White Pine Press.

There are a number of other pieces as well, all worth checking out.