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“Almost everyone lost someone during the war,” writes Cristina Rivera Garza in The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.  

Each letter, oiled with the familiar / flinty viridescence of mackerel, apostolic & fluttering down / wiped with the edge of a lungi, the frayed plaid dotting / tea terraces warbling with a green / so wet it rivers my lap, so wet it migrates my throat—from CURB, “Milestone 3 (We Are at Ease in Our Silence)” btwn the the tiny steel frame door a small concrete portal / & a stowaway—from Unnatural Bird Migrator, “Third Space”

We Walked in Clouds is a YA graphic novel written by Deborah Noyes and M Duffy, an interpretation of the 1692 Salem witch trials based on primary source

This Halloween, to recognise the disappearance of the male half of the species from YA horror fiction this article brings together a selection of my favourite boys from all of the teen horror and dark fiction I have featured in the Young Blood of Ginger N

Translation as a Collaborative Mode: An Interview with Sarah Booker Sarah Booker I met Sarah Booker virtually in 2018 when she spoke with a graduate student reading group about translating Cristina Rivera Garzas  The Iliac Crest. During her virtual visit, Booker was gracious enough to talk with us about her translation process, and I have kept an eye on her work ever since. In this interview, conducted over email, Booker tells WWB about what drew her to translation work, her praxis, and h...

Listen To Gayblades Debut Album Craniofacial Pain Chris Cudby / Artwork credit: Hairy Palm / Wednesday 7th April, 2021 1:38PM    Sharing their name with one of the earliest LGBT-themed video games, Tāmaki duo Gayblade soundtrack midnight journeys to the dankest dungeon depths and beyond into mystic forests of yore on their debut album Craniofacial Pain. The collaborative project of Aaliyah Zionov (Baby Zionov) and Amelia Berry (Amamelia, Van Staden & Böhm), Gayblades seven trac...

By Cristina Rivera Garza It is also a place that is written about in relation to violence. Over the past few decades, the US- Mexico border has been awash in a particular kind of militarized violence carried out by both national governments, along with private interests, such as cartels and militias. It is often the bodies of ordinary people, whether migrants crossing the scorching Sonoran Desert in Arizona or women hanging from overpasses in Ciudad Juárez, that become the targets of cruel go...

Reading - our top five picks of books based in Essex WHAT better time to delve into the depths of a novel is there than during the coldest winter months? With a national lockdown preventing us from getting out and about as much as we normally would, we have put together a list of five famous novels which are all set in Essex for you to enjoy. 1. The Essex Serpant This award-winning novel, by Sarah Perry, follows the newly widowed Cora who relocated from London to an Essex village intrigue...