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Liberating the Literary Canon | Houman Barekat
Read June/July 2018 in full here.
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments, Ann Quin, And Other Stories, January 2018, edited by Jennifer Hodgson. pp. 192,...
Cycling the Appian Way | Maggie Butt
Our wheels bump-and-jar on the flatblack stones
which once vibrated to the drubbing feet
of legionnaires, leaving forum and family behind,
marching south in the scent of...
Mrs Norwood’s “Kerfuffle” | David Burke
On 11 September 1999 Mrs. Norwood, an eighty-seven year old grandmother, woke up to find the world’s press occupying her front garden. ‘The game’s...
The Mirror | Moniza Alvi
after Jules Supervielle
Give her a mirror halfway across the road,
she’ll see life in it, slipping through her hands,
a glittering star like an irregular heart
which...
William Bedford | Flying Lessons
The dark hours shift was the only one Stephen had liked, and tonight was his last. The beat patrols were already out around town...