INKROCI N.31 – SEPTEMBER 2018
Stories
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged from the people who passed. They had often heard...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman--
"We...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
The future is a bad path – Interview with seven writers...
To celebrate the release of the two anthologies curated by Gian Filippo Pizzo – La cattiva strada (The Bad Path), published by Delmiglio, and...
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EDITORIAL
Afric McGlinchey – ‘Literary Jury Duty’: Why Reviewing Matters.
I’m guessing that most reviewers are themselves poets. Many of us know that heart-in-mouth feeling of waiting for the critic’s verdict, the one that...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Eiji Yoshikawa – Musashi
‘I told you. I’ve just become a new man. I stayed in that musty hole for three years. I read books. I thought. I...
Silvio Donà – Living with a non-famous writer
I know what you are thinking: this article should have been written by my wife.
However, it is also true that when you have known...
Stephen Byrne – Because You’re A Girl
you will bring life
into this world,
only to lose yours.
Because you’re a girl
you will suffer mutilation
to bleed & scream for a month.
Because you’re a girl
you...
Stephen Byrne – A Father Calls to his Child on Liveleak
In memoriam 513 Children Gaza 2014
Wake up child wake up
cries the father to his child
beneath the torn & tattered building
within the dust &...
Stephen Byrne – Raise Your Heads
stop looking at the ground
stop glaring at your phones
stop hiding under rocks
stop drowning beneath the sea
stop avoiding the eyes
of someone in need
stop social media...
Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at...
Reviews
OcchioPinocchio
Women in Skirts (1991) was a controversial but successful movie. It was the last great...
Richard Stark and Darwyn Cole – Slayground
Hard boiled afternoon lesson: Slayground (in Italian Luna-Parker) by Richard Stark (pseudonym of Donald E....
Loredana Limone – An earthquake at Borgo Propizio
Un terremoto a Borgo Propizio (An earthquake at Borgo Propizio) is the third book of...
Robert A. Heinlein – The moon is a harsh mistress
How a revolution is born
In 2075 the moon is used as a penal colony by...
Mika Waltari – The Dark Angel
The end of an era
1453: Constantinople is going to fall into Turkish hands. It’s the...
Sadakichi Hartmann – Collected Poems, 1886-1944
Sadakichi Hartmann has been described as ‘one of the most intriguing and overlooked figures in...
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Continuing the journey in the world of British punk and alternative music, after talking about...
Loren D. Estleman – Frames
A cinema detective
Valentino is a UCLA archivist and likes to call himself a film detective,...
W.R. Burnett – Conant
Conant is a classic gangster-like thriller that sees a journalist facing a crazy crime organization...
Cinema Paradiso
Talking nowadays about Cinema Paradiso seems rather useless given that everyone has talked about it,...
