Marking TimePewter Stapleton is drowning under a pile of marking. He teaches creative writing at a university in Sheffield, a campus peopled with malign cost cutting accountants, baffled security staff and colleagues cloning themselves. Pewter is a brilliant comic creation, an endless lister of tasks which are never quite completed, who is strung forever between seriousness and send up, a commitment to his writing and boundless cynicism about writers and the arts

A man of many passions

Translators extend the writ of the Republic of Humane Letters

with appreciation by Subhi Hadidi

Indians and Chinese – against the colonial establishment

thoughtful and imaginative

Arthur Quller Couch and others

But marriage between Austrian girls and Englishmen is prohibited by the military government

fuck-you work

Scot Siegel’s latest book uses California as a springboard to consider “the age we live in

FEATURE ON IRAQI AUTHORS – part 3

go jump in a lake

There is compromise and conversation throughout