This Paradise: Stories Olivier Stephenson

This Paradise: Stories Olivier StephensonA family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings. Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to live. This Paradise is a rare and beautiful

“It made me laugh

translated by Sibyl Ruth

and the Guest Literature section from the Berlin Festival on “The Future of Cities” features Roddy Doyle

Sign is often thought of as simple

Also in this issue: exquisite translations of Jacques Tornay by Annie Freud

including a year's stay in Dublin as a child and over 50 trips back since

is to be constantly moving over untrodden territory

as the poet satirizes the patriarchy and issues a rallying cry for women broken down by society

translated by Stefan Tobler

Terry Gifford

The sea is spread and cleaved and furled is a poem and a film about the veneer of dialogue

Dylan Brennan