Omar El Akkad swims from Doha to Orgeon; Hanif Kureishi rediscovers his subject matter; Rahul Bhattacharya on the greatest cricket photo ever taken; Kaiama L. Glover translates Haiti’s revolutionary poet; Eleanor Wachtel interviews Percival Everett; Lorna Goodison leaves the dinner party; Suzanne Gardinier locates poetry’s moral core; Chris Bailey confronts the wreckage; Karen Benning encounters the loneliest element; Phoebe Wang raises the main; Fiction by Kanako Nishi (trans. Allison Markin Powell) and Steven Heighton; Poetry by Robert Bringhurst, Jesse Nathan, and René Depestre (trans. Kaiama L. Glover); Plus artwork by Tom Hegen, Manny Trinh, Leanne Shapton, and Lauren Tamaki.