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THE LATEST NEWS
Stories
Heiko H. Caimi – Sick Earth
I came home in the evening, while long shadows were extending between the buildings, bridging at dusk. I crossed the main street and slipped...
Lara Gregori – A Thread, A Dream
He could see himself as a child sitting on a rock beside the fire while his mother, her veil lifted and her nails black...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
Fifteen Questions to Catherine Dunne
So many and so different are the judgments and the opinions on Catherine Dunne that it’s hard to say which of them can portrait...
EDITORIAL
From the kitchen: Two-tongued Sea
How is a new Inkroci column born? How is an anthology conceived? Reading this story, you’re a witness to the inception of a transnational...
COVER
Literatures
Lyn Coffin – on the street below…
on the street below
the tanks rolled on like
congealing lava
you grab the backpack
you prepared a week
ago and add your
mother's antique salt
cellar then rail...
Daniel Meurois-Givaudan – This Nail I Hammered
If there is a book that can really open hearts and minds, and lead to a new direction in life, is "This Nail I...
Natalie Diaz – How the Milky Way Was Made
My river was once unseparated. Was Colorado. Red —
fast flood. Able to take
anything it could wet—in a wild rush—
all the way to...
Fiona Sampson – Frankenstein’s Golem
Who is this
moving swiftly
through darkness
in a landscape
not yet given
form by daylight
slipping shapeless
as a shadow
through the dark
and unknown places
wearing night
next to his skin
wearing a pelt
of...
Fernanda Burgath – “my mother said that…”
my mother said that
that her mother’s said
that her mother and grandmother
also said
that yes, you have to do
the great-grandmother said yes
because who first said that...
Boris Slutsky – How They Killed My Grandmother
How did they kill my grandmother?
This is how they killed my grandmother:
In the morning a tank
Rolled up to the city bank.
One hundred and fifty...
Reviews
Piergiorgio Odifreddi – The Gospel According to Science. Religions to the Litmus Test
The pontificating atheist
The author, who usually feels a great sense of self-satisfaction when is fond...
Toto – Falling in Between
The album which marks the end of the career for Toto (but at the time...
George Mackay Brown – Greenvoe
What is the difference between community and society? As individuals, we recognize that we are...
Seumas O’Kelly – Waysiders. Stories of Connacht
Waysiders is a path. At the same time, it is an extremely strong emotional experience,...
Jane Austen – Lady Susan
The art of planning the heart
This is a ruthless epistolary novel, apparently with no way...
Shahrnush Parsipur – Women Without Men
The Right To Exist
In a garden of Karaj, destination and visionary, poetic womb of a...
Character
In Rotterdam in the Twenties, young lawyer Jacob Katadreuffe, still an apprentice, is arrested despite...
Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything is Illuminated
A book full of (broken) promises
It is not always easy to disentangle the two plots...
Gérard de Nerval – The Tale of Caliph Hakim
Joy and revolution
An extremely fascinating long story, which mixes Christian culture and “The Arabian Nights”...
Robert Graves – The Scream (The Shout)
Anguish of the Absolute
A mysterious and spooky man falls into the life of a young...