Book excerpt: This special fourth installment of the acclaimed literary anthology from leading editor and critic John Freeman introduces a list of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short-story writers from around the world who are shaping the literary conversation right now and will continue to impact it in years to come. Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from a select list of writers aged twenty-five to seventy, from twenty countries and writing in almost as many languages. It is an aesthetic manifesto for our times and an exciting view of where writing is headed today.