The Survivors of the Crossing Carole Satyamurti

The Survivors of the Crossing Carole SatyamurtiIt is 1961 and a Labour party rules the self governing colony of Barbados, but the sugar estate workers wonder whether slavery has ever really ended. Austin C. Clarkes first novel rages against the White alliance of the land owning class and the church, and their Black supporters. Protagonist Rufus stands up, determined that this is not how things should be. First published in 1964, this is a young mans book whose acerbic comedy of status, play acting

Maher Sharafeddine – The Hand An excerpt from a novel

Wingbeats is the result of a two-year cultural project

Mohamed Berrada

It will be a celebration of movement

it offers a lively and informed critical context for the best contemporary poetry

A Cloud from Sodom trans

Excerpt from Habib Selmi’s novel Ushaq Bayya [Bayya’s Lovers]

Read the poems

which my mother has stuffed with live sable is

was published by Mondadori

His essays and articles are collected in From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills (University of Wisconsin Press)

I feel he will distinguish himself as one of the most original of younger writers