INKROCI N.32 – DECEMBER 2018
Stories
Antonia Buizza – Friends
“What time is it?”
“A quarter to nine already”.
“What shall we do? Shall we order?”
“I would say yes. I think we have waited too long...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and the baby.
It made her laugh to think of Désirée...
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
Elaine Cosgrove – Greening
I.
Cold February, Galway Novena comes around again.
Students burst home past the Cathedral’s line.
The rain starts to come down hard and under white flap,
a trailer...
Elaine Cosgrove – Inside the 24hr
First we all hear the shuffling noise.
Look! a tourist outside Spar exclaims—her phone,
a pitchfork claim, a scamall despair, our local newsprint’s
state stories so close,...
Elaine Cosgrove – Endless
We become adult
on roads, on lines,
on grids, on greens,
on grey spaces —
you cannot zoom in.
We become older
with the city as seer,
decibels the scale
from stepping...
Elaine Cosgrove
Elaine Cosgrove is from the West of Ireland. Transmissions, her debut collection of poems, is published by Dedalus Press.
Elaine Cosgrove was born in Sligo...
American Gods
American Gods is a 2017 tv series, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name.
Shadow Moon, the main character, is a man...
Awakening films and tv series
During times of change and related turmoil like our current one, there are some films and TV series that can help us, not only...
Reviews
Luigi Meneghello – The Little Masters
A Resistance that palpitates with humanity
Luigi Meneghello tells his own experience during the first years...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The main character is Dr. Phibes, a car crash survivor whose wife tragically dies in...
Serge Quadruppani – The Politics of Fear
None other than our world
In his essay The politics of fear, what Serge Quadrupani shows...
Elsa Morante – The Andalusian Shawl
In 1963 at nearly 50 years of age and during a really difficult period of...
Ludovico Ariosto – Satires
“My seat for a turnip”
What would you think of the life of Ludovico Ariosto, an...
Kobus Moolman – A Book of Rooms
The multi-award-winning South African poet Kobus Moolman begins his seventh poetry collection with a quotation...
Ilona Jerger – And Marx kept silent in Darwin’s garden
A novel that tells, with frequent flash-backs, the last years of two of the most...
Nicoletta Vallorani – Wolf Eyes
A Parable against prejudices
The young Inuit Azùl wants to avenge the death of a friend...
Vittorio Curtoni – White on black
How can you die
White on black presents nine short stories of Vittorio Curtoni, a great...
Robert J. Conley – Geronimo. An American legend
Geronimo, an American legend. Twenty years ago, Walter Hill's movie was written by John Milius....
