Feldman in LoveMcCarthyite witchhunts, the Rosenberg trial, the Korean War. This is the backdrop to the combative friendship between two creatives; Morton Feldman and Philip Guston. Feldman, musical pioneer with a genius often derided in his lifetime, left a remarkable sonic legacy when he died in 1987. The Lower East Side of New York in the 1950s bristles with the electricity of music, poetry and art, and lives, where everything is risked to secure the next

a rhyming trashcan

An operatic

MEGACITY redresses this problem: giving the reader a many-faceted sense of the megacity character

as he focuses on our alarming present situation

to poems about ‘half-built Lego palaces’ and friends who share their deepest secrets

The issue opens with excerpts from novels: Memoirs in the Sun by Azouz Begag

Features a foreword by Anna Chilvers

Evelina Shats

He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

Ghassan Kanafani

Editorial – Is there going to be a third issue

all reflecting current trends in the Arabic novel