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A new fiction special, introducing two new authors: Gary Shteyngart is not yet thirty. His story, Several Anecdotes About My Wife, is a funny & scurrilous account of a young Russian immigrant's disastrous marriage to a native New Yorker. Jon McGregor works as washer-up in a Nottingham restaurant. His story Jonas is a lyrical and disturbing account of a mysterious death in the Anglian fens. Plus: New short stories by Rachel Cusk, Edmund White and Jonathan Ley. Arthur Miller remembers his life at the Chelsea Hotel, with Brendan Behan and Dylan Thomas, Rory Stewart among the dervishes in Pakistan, Aleksander Hemon's return to Sarajevo and a photographic essay by Deirdra O'Callaghan on the lost souls of Camden Town.