When noted Albanian author Lekë Cukali arrives in Sarajevo for a writer’s residency, he is met by an elegant but odd woman, his programme contact, who accompanies him to the flat where he is to sta…

On Guillermo Stitch’s ‘The Coast of Everything’

The Asymmetrical Mouth: David Gascoyne’s Elegy for Paul Éluard – an essay by Daniel Barbiero

Double Room in Glasnevin; free parking/airport bus

Burn. The sight of beauty sets me on fire. I once read of the burning tremor of fear which the lover will suffer when the eye perceives a likeness of eternal beauty. Burn. To read Daniela Cascella …

Everybody Is Interested in Pigeons eBook : Kavanagh, Paul: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Midway through Plato’s Symposium the comic poet Aristophanes takes the floor. He tells us that, in the beginning, we were whole, shaped like the heavenly bodies. But we became too powerful and made wa...

Jean Echenoz opens his tribute to his longtime editor and publisher, with an account that many other hopeful, and perhaps naïve, would-be authors might know well.  It is 1979, he has just turn…

The Black Herald / Le Héraut noir / version numérique / digital version 2025

These short stories, which appear in English for the first time, were composed forthe most part in prison, before Sarrazin’s novels were published to international acclaim in1965. Here, Sarrazin turns...