Darkness
“In everything, Schopenhauer argued, there was will… will represented by a man and his falcons, or two couples fumbling along on vacation or this darkness…” Story of the Week (September 26), by Robert Earle.
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Song for Gaboo
“You were our first star/ maestro of Broglie Street/ your piano flourishes cascading down the evening…” Poem of the Week (September 23), by John Robert Lee.
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ohio
“the first dry leaves drift to the ground/ as if somewhere a library were on fire.” Poem of the Week (September 16), by Jan Wagner. Translated from German by Iain Galbraith.
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Boy in an Old Photograph
“It is his last photo,/ but the camera keeps clicking/ every year without him/ in the dark lens.” Poem of the Week (September 9), by Mir Mahfuz Ali.
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Karachi, You’re Killing Me!
“As far as debut novels go, this one is pretty fantastic… Plus, it has a cat.” Ghausia Rashid Salam reviews Saba Imtiaz’s first novel.
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Darwin Mother
“Darwin Mother had a peculiar taste for silver and dandelions. And in a yellow house down the street, she lived all alone…” Story of the Week (September 5), by C.G. Fewston.
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The Courage Necessary
“They wanted to live on the Moon, so they did. One day, they just got into their rocket ship, and they left…” Story of the Week (August 29), by Scott Kolp.
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How We Killed The Sailor
“Today in the besieged city fifteen people were killed by one fiery ball… No one had wanted to save them. I’ll see their faces tomorrow in the newspaper obituaries.” Story of the Week (August 22), by Alma Lazarevska.
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Author of the Month: Zsolt Láng
“It takes me six years to write a novel and quite possibly it will end up in the litter bin once it is finished.” Zsolt Láng, Author of the Month for July, talks to fiction editor Maliha Iftekhar.
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Fady
“The villagers say there is a door there, at the end of the canyon. Jaomora says it is fady. A taboo place…” New Voices writing competition winner, by Audrey McCombs.
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