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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...

dear Other, with pink dish   (Flo Reynolds & Cat Woodward)     in the interest of distance let me describe you: the frame of two seats, the little peg to hang a coat here, & here the way the seat cuts into space & fields intrude through the eye which casts the light by which it sees by this token a parable agon arrives at last introducing to this frame an ear where 2 flowers in a jar querulous & orange in the interest of distance (where i live) let me describe to you a rising cannon that burgeons like water how boastful  architectures of elsewhere render the film within the film: power tools to a living forehead & here in my distance drill bits cut  to precious briolettes let me say to you ‘gondwanaland’ through  the moving shapes, let me say sweet gem ‘where did you go?’ & ‘where have all the girls gone?’ & ‘where have all the not-girls gone?’ i have looked all over in this picture place which has an echo, a floor plan with two eyes open (cringe) happy accident is cosy in between: window, door, idea of door, surprise! too big to see its edges,  & holding several years this gallery space a sunken grey radiator  full of colony, this the distance i am goingthrough & into this space letting let now and let let my coat from the peg there let hold the arm i wear let slow let speak too loudly so all consents my coat in the corner slip on before leaving to go now, so letting go quiet and my permission to go quiet and look at it fleshly too much i asking quietly a frame is 5×9 and give                                                                                    remind me at this vertex my body is circumstance & its environs so let the frame i wear turn & consider a girlform (headless armless legless torso, smooth terracotta with bosom) & a not-girlform (helmet the curve of willowleaf, plumes) let hold the

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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December 2013

The Horror of Philosophy

Houman Harouni

feature

December 2013

An article published in this same venue opens with a grievance: ‘We lack the philosophers that we require for...

Interview

January 2016

Interview with Marlene van Niekerk

Jan Steyn

Interview

January 2016

Marlene Van Niekerk is the foremost Afrikaans writer of her generation. She is a renowned poet, scholar, critic, and...

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Issue No. 17

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 17

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Irishman set up a magazine in London in 2010. This sounds like the...

 

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