Published in June 2025, Issue Fifty Seven and its six sections contains 16 articles including the story of Ireland touring South America despite the Falklands Conflict; how President Trump’s political bombast will impact US relations with Canada and Mexico; how the language of football has infiltrated everyday discourse in Argentina; the bizarre decline of Suwon Samsung Bluewings, a club run for profit not glory.
Jonathan Wilson is a British-born writer and professor who lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of seven books: the novels The Hiding Room and A Palestine Affair, a finalist for the 2004 National Jewish Book Award, two collections of short stories Schoom and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble, two critical works on the fiction of Saul Bellow and most recently a biography, Marc Chagall, runner-up for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
Wilson also writes a column on soccer for the Internet Newspaper, The Faster Times.