Harm EdenHarm Eden is about how our fucked up present day civilization is built on originary and timeless systemic damage. The fantasy of nature and or art as echoes of a purer creation reinforces this foundation all the more. This book attempts to think through and simultaneously away from this evil fantasy and the civilization it upholds by exploiting the tension between history and poetry.

war rages in Europe

and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman

qualities of air

Catherine is certainly one of them: a  powerful female voice seeking her place within her family

Magnetic North (Lagan Press

with an excerpt from her novel Walking in the Dust

remaking the vessel of literature as he goes

in this issue eight novels are fully reviewed alongside the translated excerpts while one includes an interview with the author

and the dilemmas of being Jewish are poignantly traced through the European diaspora into the cross-cultural crises of the Middle East

don’t weep’

The golden 1980s in the Socialist Yugoslavia were a curious time

sleeps with any woman who is willing