The Loss Library and Other Unfinished StoriesIn The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, a blend of essay, fiction and literary genealogy, Ivan Vladislavic explores the problems and potentials of the fictions he could not bring himself to write. Drawing from his notebooks, he records here a range of ideas for storiesunsettled accounts, or case studies of failureand examines where they came from and why they eluded him. In the process, he reveals some of the principles that matter to him as

the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan

Rome became the crucible of major advances in seventeenth-century sculpture

or case studies of failure—and examines where they came from and why they eluded him

the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then

there is much else that is of importance behind and alongside his buildings

Suicide Note

he educated himself by interviewing artists active in early 1980s New York

This led to an interest in underwater photography and he went on to become a professional diver

but all are celebrated for their striking visual images

Historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reflect on the challenges posed by essentialism and exclusion whenever cultures attempt to define and assert themselves

Mark Prime

ensconced within the real