The latest issue of Five Dials, the excellent free literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton, will be launched on July 30 in an online event being organised by the LRB Bookshop. Five Dials 57, on the theme “To Leave and to Be Left Behind”, will explore  “the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us”. Guest-edited by Sophie Mackintosh, it brings together “a range of playful, intimate and risk-taking voices from across contemporary fiction and poetry”. To celebrate the launch, Mackintosh will be joined in conversation by three of the magazine’s contributors: Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler.