More and more writers have severed their connections to PEN America, the largest writers’ advocacy organization in the US, over its persistent support for the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza.
Set during the difficult era of the Great War (1914-1918), The Devastation of Silence is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who,
Of Children and Sphincters
Two maladroit lovers search for the meaning in childhood games, their parlay capturing the awkward transition from youth to intellectual and emotional adulthood, in this comical excerpt from Xurxo Borrazás’s novel I Is.
That night, in one second, the alarms ring out like crickets in heat, simultaneously. The sheets take on the shape of the bodies beneath them, and on wrists, in towers, on tables and walls, time is told in a single direction. Their bodies lie slack, submerged and conscious in the absence of light chased by the night.
“I don’t know where to start,” he says.