St Michael’s Church, Rampside, photo Rampside Church by Margaret Yip Martin came in late one Saturday night in early summer, 1977. Viv and I had sat up until nearly 1 a.m. to let him in through the lounge window of the hostel. “I’ve found a job in Bristol,” he said. As…
Month: March 2025
Politics
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PETER COWLAM INTERVIEWS J. W. WOOD
J. W. Wood Cowlam: It seems timely that with a collection of short stories just published by AN Editions, you have recently sold a short story to Substack in LA, quite a laurel given the stiff competition you must have been up against. Substack has truly established itself as an…
Alicia E, Stallings
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INTERVIEW WITH SHEENAGH PUGH
Sheenagh Pugh at her back gate in Hoswick, Shetland, from the personal archive of Sheenagh Pugh Sheenagh Pugh was born in 1950. She lives in Shetland with her husband. She has published nine collections of poetry and translations, plus a Selected Poems and a sort of mini-Selected, two novels and a…
Language
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Sudeep Sen: Language
Vishnu, Photo by Spoortesh Honey – pexels 21st March is World Poetry Day. To celebrate it, here is a poem by Sudeep Sen. . . Without translation, I would be limited tothe borders of my own country. The translator ismy most important ally.— ITALO CALVINO Language . 1 .1 …
Al-ghazal
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Kathryn A. Kopple: Al-ghazal
Green Mountains Photo Moustafa Elsamadouni, Pexels We are pleased to keep company with Kathryn Kopple, who is a poet and novelist, and runs the literary blog The Leaving Years. Two of her published novels are Little Velásquez and The Leaving Year. She has previously collaborated with AN’s literary editor Peter Cowlam in the…
Chandi Chowk
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A Trip to Karim’s in Old Delhi
Olive Kapil at a market stall in Old Delhi Glorious food in unapologetic surroundings by Arun Kapil . My spice journey has, happily, taken me on many an adventure around the world—not least to the place where my company, Green Saffron, sources its ingredients: the spice cupboard of the world…
Al Hirschfield
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IN CONVERSATION WITH TOM BACHTELL
King Donald, ©Tom Bachtell Paul Halas — interview with Halas & Hall Anyone who has seen a copy of The New Yorker over the past thirty or so years will be familiar with the work of Tom Bachtell. He’s the guy who created so many of the wonderful caricatures that…
April 22nd
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The Balloonist
Murals of José Clemente Orozco, in the Hospicio Cabañas Photo by Edgar Mosqueda Camacho by Phil Hall . On the 22nd of April 1992, there were 10 petrol-gas explosions in northern Guadalajara, killing at least 242 people, injuring up to 600, and destroying 8 kilometres of city streets, making 15,000…
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