Issue 58 | Jan-Mar 2019

Party On: An experimental review of Ksenia Buksha’s Freedom Factory

It was a surprisingly hilarious novel, a bubbling pot of big personalities, forty short chapters bursting with historical detail, wit, and Communist Party nostalgia.

The Path

When someone shoots a dark look, I think it is because I am a middle-aged white woman with a spirited black child.

The Poetry of Julio César Aguilar

Poet, translator, editor, director of poetry projects, and professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Julio César Aguilar was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, in 1970. He is the author…

Chaucer was more than English: he was a great European poet

In 2013, a Prospect magazine profile of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the Brexiteer’s party in Chaucerian terms: UKIP is indeed a rag-tag bag … of cussed, contrary, wilful,…