Issue 496

October 2016 - "World Fiction Special"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - October 2016

From this month's magazine:

• Writers are crossing borders

• Worldbeaters: Rodrigo Duterte

• New Music

• Cairo: the disappointments

The short stories:

• Fat by Krys Lee

• The Lake Retba Murder by Efemia Chela

• Ghosts by Ana Mendez

From the web this month:

• Picture story: after Hurricane Matthew in Haiti

• Ken Loach talks about his new film, ‘I, Daniel Blake’ about the problems in the welfare system

From this month's blogs:

• Europe: together against refugees

Students protest against sweatshops

Ready lessons this month:

• SHORT STORIES - for Intermediate learners: read/speak/write/vocabulary - 30 mins-1 hr after learners read stories for homework