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The Two Sisters

This story is based on the group of murder ballads known as “The Two Sisters”, found in various forms throughout Europe.

Geoffrey Heptonstall

1. Following the Snail

L’Escargot by Henri Matisse is large and immediately apparent to any Tate Britain visitor...

Marina Jarre: A Writer for Our Times - A prologue by Marta Barone

Over four years I’ve been composing a sort of hybrid biography and memoir entitled The Bright Dream: A Writer’s Return..

Micaela Brinsley

Previous to Language: the converse of Ignacio Oliden

Ignacio Oliden on what's before the surface.

Petros and the Anatolian Wolves

The winter has been heavy. Claustrophobic. Petros is tired. Tired of being confined to the small walled compound of...

The Cipher and the Mirror: Two Poems by Eminescu and Barbu

What a Borgesian delight to think that Mihai Eminescu, considered by many to be Europe’s last great Romantic...

The Birdcatcher's Son

No one bears witness to the capture of the birds. It happens at night, after all the people of the town are in bed.

Stefan Ferguson

Agamemnon, having returned victorious from the Trojan War, finds himself defeated in other ways: haunted by his...

Come Here - Part Three

On April 10th 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria boarded a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154...

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