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Leon Craig
Leon Craig is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She has written for the TLS, the Literary ReviewAnother Gaze and the London Magazine among others. Her queer gothic short story collection Parallel Hells is published by Sceptre Books and she is currently working on her first novel The Decadence.

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Cosy Violence

Book Review

June 2023

Leon Craig

Book Review

June 2023

The 22 year old Australian narrator of K Patrick’s sensuous, subversive debut novel is a long way from home. A matron at an unnamed...

Fiction

September 2021

Lick the Dust

Leon Craig

Fiction

September 2021

When you misplace something in the library here, it stays lost for a very long time. The eighteenth-century catalogue...

Taxi The taxi stopped and Henry climbed into the taxi The taxi driver went around the block three times before finally deciding to head to the train station Henry thought about complaining but the bag was bulky and cumbrous, his arms were arching, his hands were red, and so the three times around the block helped with restitutio in integrum Henry had been reading Latin They say it is language in a state of moribundity It is not yet dead and so the death scene can be compared to Othello’s Henry had also been reading Shakespeare, something at school he had omitted with the help of cigarettes and a coquettish thirteen year old that showed her underwear for the last two drags on the cigarette She always wore white cotton panties Now Henry dreamed of white cotton panties At the time he thought the girl and her white cotton panties a parasite, not worth the energy to expel the spit in his gob He always handed over the cigarette smeared with his spit The girl never seemed to mind She pulled on the cigarette as though it was very dangerous and she was behaving very naughty The morning sun made Henry feel uncomfortable He would have liked to change places with the bulky and cumbrous bag which was in the shade The taxi driver was no longer looking up the long road; his eyes had been diverted by a pair of long legs Henry and taxi driver eyed the woman about to cross the road She was wearing a fancy black dress and the pearls around her neck caught the sun The taxi driver slowed down the taxi Henry had to lean over and rest his elbows on the bulky and cumbrous bag The woman walked into the road and was hit by a van The van stopped The taxi had to stop Henry almost broke his neck The woman in the middle of the road was dead A pool of blood was slowly forming around her Henry thought of Desdemona A crowd gathered around her as flies around

Contributor

April 2016

Leon Craig

Contributor

April 2016

Leon Craig is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She has written for the TLS, the Literary Review, Another Gaze and the London Magazine among...

Art Review

April 2019

Oscar Wilde Temple, Studio Voltaire

Leon Craig

Art Review

April 2019

The light is dim, the air richly scented. Little purple tea lights flicker in the votive candle rack and...

[Getting] Down with Gal Pals

Feature

November 2018

Leon Craig

Feature

November 2018

There’s a moment in Laura Kaye’s underrated novel English Animals when the protagonist Mirka, sitting in the village bar with her married lover, notices...
Mute Canticle

Prize Entry

April 2016

Leon Craig

Prize Entry

April 2016

Giulio the singing fascist came to pick me up from the little airport in his Jeep. He made sure to come round and hold...

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Interview

July 2013

Interview with Paul Muldoon

Alice Whitwham

Interview

July 2013

A major figure in English-language poetry for decades, Paul Muldoon has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of...

Interview

June 2017

Interview with Elif Batuman

Yen Pham

Interview

June 2017

Elif Batuman never intended to become a non-fiction writer. She always planned to write novels, and it was only...

Art

July 2014

(holes)

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses...

 

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