When I began Zion Offramp in the summer of 2015—at first without title, then under another title best forgotten—I knew little of where I was going, only that I wanted to attempt a poem of substantial ...

Translated from the Russian by Max Lawton. The novel’s “blue lard” is a substance developed at a top-secret facility in the remote Soviet Union. The facility holds numerous clones of Russian writers, ...

With their free-use households and interdicts on jealousy. Placing a ban on Dionysus, Pan, Leto, Krishna, Brahma, Seeta, Durga et al, this is the angry arsehole who would screw My Runiad, replacing ...

< from Book 10 A Fortnightly Serial. By ANTHONY HOWELL. ANTHONY HOWELL writes: My own romantic notion of myself has encouraged me to attempt an epic. It will have 24 books and be the same length as ...

JOHN WILKINSON is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English, University of Chicago, where he directed the Program in Creative Writing. His most recent books are Fugue State (Shearsman 2023), ...

Not a bundle of laughs, the New Testament, let’s be honest. And yet there is a subtle realignment constantly going on, which qualifies the texts for examination as the overall work of a humourist.

< chapters 27 & 28 A Fortnightly Serial.By ALAN WALL. • Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Blues in Paris HARLIE TOOK his thesis with him. He would give it to Jennifer with all the corrections when they ...

In the magnifying glass of the poetic word, Modernism is the history of the twentieth century; it was, you may remember a turbulent history—utopian hopes, political polarisation, prejudice, wars, and ...

Arab slavers prey upon the tribes. Leopold’s ghost will never sleep, Pinched and prodded everywhere by amputated hands. Allah and Jehovah have both behaved like vultures over Africa, Imagining a ...

Not at all. Purple covered the couch he chose to lay her down on. Pillows supported her head, and he was glad to share that bed. Bring about a union of her contours and his inclination. Then came the ...

Now Charlie’s 1930s Martin was a commodity. It had been made in a market, made for money by people working for money. And yet. Such love and devotion had been poured into its creation, such pride, ...

From the word go, Sudhir Kakar’s book on psychoanalysis and non-Western civilizations promises to be entertaining as well as enlightening. Initially he points out that most of our knowledge on how ...