Book of Mutter and afterword by Steven G. Kellman

Book of Mutter and afterword by Steven G. KellmanBook of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throesand dead calmof grief. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, it is an uncategorisable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem

Lamming reaches far beneath the surface of ethnic difference into the very heart of the processes of perception

Zionists and non-Zionists and Jews and the British Mandate Government

and Denys Johnson Davies reviews David Tresilian’s A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets

INTERVIEW with poet

in Life and Death

that take the reader on a journey from the public world of political conflict to the private space of home

Gilroy lays the past bare as a text for the present

the poetry of Sappho and the travels of Odysseus

Mohja Kahf who writes in English

Elma Napier’s remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with the wild Caribbean island of Dominica

Lloyd suspects that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm