INKROCI N.32 – JANUARY 2019
Stories
Antonia Buizza – Immortality
I met Maicol at primary school, but only three years ago I understood how worthy he was.
He went within a split time from barely...
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...
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
Gabrielle Zevin – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Who's like to open a holy bookshop, like the one in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (originally published as The Collected Works of...
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...
Reviews
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
A nearly frantic irony
The recent passing of Pulitzer Prize’s recipient Philip Roth, who is also...
Miriam Bonetti – Mukarib
My name is Mukarib, but everyone calls me Mucca. Not Muka, but Mucca, just as...
Robert Crais – Taken
With Taken I renewed the pleasure of reading a story by Elvis Cole and his...
The Earth seen from the Moon
The Earth seen from the Moon is a surreal tale which is embodied in the...
Luigi Meneghello – The Little Teachers
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...
