Don't Try This at Home Louise Gluck Mohammad al-Hussaini

Mohammad al-Hussaini

a chapter from Hassan Nasr’s Return to Dar al-Basha (the novel will be published by Syracuse later this year)

The only way he can get people to listen is to pretend he’s not saying what he is saying

John Corless is one of the most serious poets we have

Hannah Stevens

Don't Try This at Home Louise Gluck Mohammad al-HussainiA girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her other half multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie into Elvis. Clarys father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive. Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Readmans debut collection is aptly titled, for each