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Gloriana Orlando – Cri
Cri is a butterfly, whirling happily, forgetting everything. Cri is a little long-legged swan, who dances, dances, dances until she is exhausted and whose ...
Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I...
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Baret Magarian: The secret to a good narrative is to always...
This interview with Baret Magarian was conducted mainly in Italian. I have to confess that I wasn’t able to persude him to talk about...
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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...
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Literatures
Grace Nichols – Lost in Translation
(por el espíritu de poesía en Medellín, Colombia)
As if the earth had shifted axis again
I walk the streets of your city, Medellín,
a hammock of...
Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols was born in Guyana but has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first book of poems ‘I is a long-memoried Woman’ won...
Heiko H. Caimi – The Blank Page
Now is the time.
On my monitor, the input line flashes on the blank page. So many nice characters in my mind, and a...
Katie Griffiths – How the body holds
How the body holds
its comforts and suggestions.
How it castigates and swelters.
Or hardens at night, tough as dirt.
How it holds intent like extent...
Katie Griffiths
Katie Griffiths grew up in Ottawa, Canada, in a family originally from Northern Ireland. In 2019 she was awarded second prize in the National...
Dorianne Laux – Evening
Moonlight pours down
without mercy, no matter
how many have perished
beneath the trees.
The river rolls on.
There will always be
silence, no matter
how long someone
has wept against
the side...
Reviews
Grace Nichols – Passport to Here and There
RECLAIMING HER STORY THROUGH MEMORY
Chandramohan Sathyanathan engaging with the poetry of Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols is...
James Hadley Chase – The Wary Transgressor
Without a Moment of Truce
A guncotton noir, it weaves both the classic story of the...
VVAA – Agents of Treachery
The best spy is the one uncovering history
A decent anthology, edited by Otto Penzler, with...
36 Quai des Orfèvres
Paris. For several months a gang of delinquents operating with impunity commit crimes of cruel...
Louis-Ferdinand Céline – The Life and Work of Semmelweis
He would do anything to get his degree!
It is – or it is said to...
Sigmund Freud – The Future of an Illusion
The Well-Written Wrong Prophecy
A short essay by the Father of Psychoanalysis, exquisite writer, on religion,...
The Fables of Phaedrus
Sad Latin Bestiaries
Drawing inspiration from Aesop, Phaedrus narrates in verses moral apologues of talking animals,...
Katie Griffiths – The Attitudes
Katie Griffiths is a poet who grew up in Ottawa, Canada and now lives in...
William McIlvanney – The Kiln
We are the book, the book is us
More than a read, this is an experience....
James Hadley Chase – The Things Men Do
A stainless-steel author
A classic noir in the equally classic style of James Hadley Chase, impeccable...
