INKROCI N.29 – APRIL 2018
Stories
Anna Ettore – Libya
When the war in Libya broke out, we started working again.
Sea arrivals on Lampedusa island and on the southern Italian shores had picked up...
Saki – The Open Window
"My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put...
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
The Border
Crossing the border: crossing the frontier, going beyond the border line.
An interpreter, similarly to a translator, is always a symbolic boundary: he/she lies between...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Stephen Byrne – Raise Your Heads
stop looking at the ground
stop glaring at your phones
stop hiding under rocks
stop drowning beneath the sea
stop avoiding the eyes
of someone in need
stop social media...
Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at...
Stephen Byrne
Stephen Byrne is a chef and writer originally from Dublin and now lives in Chicago. His debut book Somewhere but not Here was selected...
Stephen Byrne – A Father Calls to his Child on Liveleak
In memoriam 513 Children Gaza 2014
Wake up child wake up
cries the father to his child
beneath the torn & tattered building
within the dust &...
Bobbie Sparrow – Beat the same drum
It’s not enough to suckle and rear
two sons who have never been here
before nor will ever be seen again
it’s not enough to hold a...
Bobbie Sparrow – One degree warmer
Digging a hollow for an apple sapling, roots trembling
digging for gold springs the rush of greed
digging sand castles of delight for small boys
digging the...
Reviews
Jack London – The Paths Men Take
The Paths Men Take is a book that presents a wide selection of photographs taken...
Stefano Tevini – Recap of previous episodes
Photographs from the future
The world is rotten. It is dominated by multinationals, corporations and media....
Vona Groarke – Selected Poems
Opening Out
This Selected volume reflects the development of Vona Groarke’s poetic sensibility over a period...
Erri De Luca – A Cloud as a Carpet
A cloud as a carpet is a collection of the most significant passages of the...
Ross Macdonald – The Moving Target
Detective Harper is instructed by Elaine Sampson, a high society lady, to find her husband...
Francesco Piccolo – The Desire to Be like Everyone
The right to be happy like everyone
This book is neither a novel nor an essay,...
Accattone
Ungrammatical cinematography was a definition that Pasolini himself gave to his cinema, nearer to painting,...
Erri De Luca – In the Name of the Mother
We are all Miriàm
"In the name of the Father" inaugurates the Sign of the Cross....
Giovanni Arpino – The Shadow of the Hills
Time for memories
Winner of the Strega Award in 1964 with The Shadow of the Hills...
The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me was released in may 1987: Robert Smith’s lips, portrayed...
