Issue 78 | Spring-Summer 2024
Our final issue, featuring Sybil Baker's reflection on expat life, Ajanta Paul on Bengali poetry in translation, Denja Abdullahi on Joshua Omeke, Rob Hardy on Nicola Griffith, and more.
Analogous Effects: on Rajorshi Patranababis’ translation of Sabari Ray’s Buddha and Void
“Translating is producing analogous effects by different means.” Paul Valéry Literary translation does not involve only the rendering of a text from one language into another but also a rendering…
A collection of recollections: on Joshua Omeke’s Joe’s Collectanea
Omeke’s collection comprises poems on the ecosystem, immigration, health, religion, and a kind of Africanized science-fiction.
Bocland: on Nicola Griffith’s Menewood and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them
Stories like Menewood show us the other worlds that exist and the other worlds that are possible together.
Conversations: Steve Hugh Westenra and Daniel Maidman
Steve Hugh Westenra is a trans author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror (basically, if it’s weird he writes it). He grew up on the eldritch shores of Newfoundland, Canada, and…
Technology and the Future of Education: A Teacher’s Testimony
It’s a Wednesday afternoon. I’m teaching ethics—deontology, intuitionism, utilitarianism—to a room full of eager, intermittently agitated high school Seniors. The morning has been cold and rainy, but G Period is…
No Number of Dictionaries Can Save You: on Ian Ganassi’s True for the Moment
When you reach the end of the book, you can almost hear the air escaping.