The ProofMarcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as shes walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: Wannafuck? Startled, she turns around and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin and Mao. Shes soon beguiled by them and the possibilities they open up. But the two have little time for a philosophical discussion of love: they need proof of it, and with their own savage logic the duo, calling themselves the Love Commando, hold up a

It's a hand in a velvet glove

including Rain-soaked Lions

Abbas Beydoun

from Renaissance Italy to present day Israel

it also includes a number of coming-of-age poems

the poems are accompanied by wonderfully eye-catching illustrations by Rose Sanderson

Hubert Moore

Entries can have been published anywhere in the world but must be available for purchase in the U

Napier settled in Dominica with her second husband in 1932

A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras’s Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss

a preoccupation of the author

hoof-churned mud