ISSUE SEVEN:
This issue features two superb international firsts: the debut publication in the English language of Journal de Trêve by the extraordinary French novelist Frédéric Berthet and the rediscovery of Jenny Ballou’s lost memoir Spanish Prelude. The two excerpts from Journal de Trêve , “Truce” & “Letter to Saul Bellow” (translated by Linda Coverdale) are introduced by Norbert Cassegrain, Berthet’s editor and close friend until Berthet’s untimely early death on Christmas Day 2003. Jenny Ballou’s “Café Revolutionaries” (from Spanish Prelude), is one of the most lucid accounts of the intellectual firmament in Spain just prior to the birth of the Spanish Republic.
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ISSUE SIX:

This issue honors Saul Bellow and Larry Rivers. Using the language and adventure of the urban frontier, they transformed the shape of American fiction and art from the 1950s on. They loved to talk and they loved little magazines. Both were on our founding Board and will be forever missed. Also inside:

Saul Bellow / Something to Remember Me By (To access discussion between Saul Bellow and Barbara Probst Solomon on his work click here)

Barbara Probst Solomon / Larry Rivers’ Madrid Afternoon at the Ritz (click here for article)

Alexandra Kataeva-Venger / They’ve Killed Gorky —a Childhood in Stalin’s Russia

Stanley Crouch/ Gypsy Girl Blues

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