Yesterday the tallest boy put a stone between his teeth and began to chew. He showed his mother what a…
December 2018 – The Swiss Riveter
4th August 1995 Croatia backed by NATO has launched its Operation Storm against the Serbian rebels. ‘It’s Saint Bartholomew today,…
There was a well-known book of science experiments for kids with a chapter titled ‘Every Eye Has a Blind Spot’.…
But I’m not mad. I have my moments of derangement. And I’m Swiss, in the sense that I was born…
Enjoy the rest of your trip The insurance broker in the town in German-speaking Switzerland that I moved to decades…
Elivra Dones leads the reader into a world unknown to many, yet real. Set in the 1990s and early 2000s,…
Congedo Fly gentle dragonfly hasten skim through the rain clouds of those who despair most and have no voice, bring…
The poetry of the Swiss-Italian poet Fabio Pusterla has a distinctively Alpine touch to it; his work feels well suited…
There is something delicate and extremely fragile about Pierre Lepori’s poetry and about the character(s) he creates. The voice he…
Fleur Jaeggy has been writing concise, unsettling works of fiction for four decades. Her haunting prose is all the more…
Much of what poetry is about occurs on the border – where the written words meet the white of the…
YOU’RE A TREE – SO WHERE ARE YOU FROM? My kindergarten teacher was a kindly soul: one day, she dressed…
