Our riveting team is proud of this pioneering little magazine. It’s not been easy gathering this selection of translated queer poetry and prose from around Europe, not only becau
‘I can’t die.’ The ridiculous words came back to Sam as he walked through the market and became caught in a clutch of mothers and children clustered around a stall selling ch
playing berlin and this is how: watch a buzzard catch a crow in the tiergarten and be overwhelmed by the cruelty and go shopping but not buy anything after all and let you stamp th
With EasyJets and internets zooming us from our living rooms into the jungles and cathedrals of foreign lands faster than a speeding bullet, it’s no wonder that it’s becoming l
The Two Fridas (school beyond the border) They had us sitting together, though that wasn’t what we wanted. We even said we didn’t. At that, our teacher whisked her cane staff t
I first came across Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa in 2006 at a PEN talk on sedition. He had recently caused something of a stir by coming out in a country where homosexuality is i
Niviaq Korneliussen has made a dramatic entry into Nordic fiction. Far removed from criminal noir yet possessing something of the Bergmanesque, her novel renders her the best-known
A dense, tense and intense collection of thirteen short stories dealing with heavy issues, from violence, bullying, abuse and cruelty to social exclusion and homophobia, Games with
If there is such a thing as a ‘canon’ of European literature in English, then Gerard Reve’s name is not to be found in it. Tolstoy, Dante, Cervantes and the other heavyweight
Gay literature is filled with tales of disapproving fathers and their emotionally damaged offspring. The dysfunctional father-son dynamic appears in Larry Kramer’s Faggots, Armis
