Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island’s nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano on the streets of Naples; Kitty Hauser on OGS Crawford: pioneering aerial photographer, utopian socialist and English eccentric.

Fiction by Josh Weil, Gemini Wahhaj and Helon Habila

Photo essays colour: Joel Sternfeld’s New York street scenes and b/w: Dayanita Singh on an unusual pioneering Indian photographer - her mother.