In our second issue: Michael Hardt tells us that we live in ‘exciting’ times, William Boyd on fiction, art and the combination of the two and Richard Wentworth on his own ‘criminal intelligence’. Features short stories by Joshua Cohen and Diego Trelles Paz, a limited edition print by artist Sophie von Cundale, photography by JH Engstrom, essays on Naples and Sri Lanka and cover art by Lewis Irvine that unfolds into a typographical narrative.