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Of Concentric Storytelling, Footballs and The Shifting World— Mojaffor Hossain

Apr 24, 2023 | Bookworm | 0 |

A BOOK REVIEW OF MOJAFFOR HOSSAIN’S COLLECTION “MEET HUMAN MEAT AND OTHER...

Exact Words For Disorientation— Iya Kiva’s Interview

Nov 2, 2022 | Colloquy | 0 |

Interviewed by Alberto Fraccareta Translated from the Italian by Pina Piccolo Iya Kiva is a...

The Cave— An Italian Story by Lucia Cupertino

Oct 28, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Italian by Pina Piccolo “So, we are on the same page, then.” These are...

Unfortunately, I can’t dance the tango – Adrián N. Bravi

Jul 10, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Italain by Pina Piccolo I know a couple who two or three nights a week go to dance the tango in a suburban theater used as a dance hall. The man has a handlebar mustache, polka dot bowties, and polished...

Goodbye Gianni – Enrico Palandri

Jan 8, 2022 | Non Fiction | 0 |

Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1937. The novels Le Avventure di Guizzardi (1973), La Banda dei Sospiri (1976) and Lunario del Paradiso (1978) established Celati as an author of the neo-avant-garde group, along with...

Let the Rivers Speak!: Lucia Cupertino and the Poetry of the Global Souths – Pina Piccolo

Nov 6, 2021 | Non Fiction | 0 |

LUCIA CUPERTINO (1986, Polignano a Mare). Writer, cultural anthropologist and translator. After her degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (University of Bologna), she earned a Masters in Anthropology of the Americas...

Four Short Stories about Growing Sad – Adrian Bravi

Oct 17, 2021 | Fiction | 0 |

Adrian Bravi’s four short stories are instead teeming with a more homogeneous chorus of protagonists – gangs of children inhabiting poor neighborhoods in a small town in Argentina. The glue that holds together their esprit de corps is a childlike imaginative misreading of and sometimes contempt for the adult world, which leads them to exercise their power as a group by tormenting or further excluding marginalized people in their community.