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Stories
Barbara Ungar – PRIVILEGE (or, WHY WE CALL THE LAKE BDE...
I am swimming on this hot May day
on a deserted beach in my white skin
I learned to swim in Minneapolis lakes,
one named after...
Tom Phillips – Poetry is the new rock’n’roll
None of us really wants it, do we?
Poetry is the new rock’n’roll –
the fame, the fortune, the snowdrifts of cocaine?
The megastores stuffed with slim...
Words from Ireland
Interviews
What propels poetry into being is amazement: conversation with Alexander Shurbanov
I met Alexander Shurbanov in Sofia during the summer of 2016, on the occasion of a brief visit to the capital of Bulgaria connected...
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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...
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COMICS
Literatures
Silvio Donà – The rookie writer launching his new novel: chronicle...
No matter how you succeeded in publishing a book: either you are the genius of the millennium, or you paid for it, or you...
“Shock bibliotherapy” suggestions
Shock bibliotherapy suggestions… every book, both fiction and non-fiction, can inspire, help, and guide us in every walk of life, as long as we...
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The world is divided into two sides/parts: one is abundant/wealthy, the other one is scarce/poor, and a selection process occurs between them. Each person,...
Gordon Ramsay – Humble Pie. My autobiography
What’s behind this famous, starred, TV chef? What made him the man he’s today? Is he really the way he looks on TV?
Humble Pie,...
The diving bell and the butterfly
A book is one of the most powerful weapons for human beings, and Jean-Dominique Bauby has understood that quite well. Editor-in-chief of Elle magazine,...
Samantha Ellis – Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of...
“Shock bibliotherapy” suggestions… every book, both fiction and non-fiction, can inspire, help, and guide us in every walk of life, as long as we...
Reviews
Ray Bradbury – Farewell Summer
The Enchanted Summer tells the story of Tom, Doug, John and other kids (and adults)...
“Deep Red” by Dario Argento
We attended a parapsychology conference in Rome. In that same room, Helga Ulmann (Macha Méril),...
Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman (1974) is an Italian Comedy Film based on Giovanni Arpino’s novel...
Barbara Ungar – Save Our Ship
Barbara Ungar’s impressively wide-ranging collection is prefaced with two aptly chosen epigraphs which serve to...
Heinrich Böll – The lost honour of Katharina Blum
“Calumny is a little breeze”: that is what Dr. Bartolo sings in the opera “The...
John Williams – Augustus
The human aspect of power
Considering the large number of people who have discovered John Williams’s...
Fellini’s Half-Past Eight (8 ½ )
8 ½ is considered one of the greatest films in the cinema history. The movie...
Jim Fergus – One Thousand White Women
This historical novel is based on a real fact: in 1875 the US president Grant...
Shaun Bythell – The Diary of a Bookseller
This is a funny and enthralling diary of a Scottish second-hand bookseller and his encounters...
Uduvicio Atanagi – Lucenti
The ‘Lucenti’ short novel has been one of the most interesting discoveries in recent months:...
