The Burning Bush Women & Other StoriesDelores is losing parts of herself, her typing speed, her ability to say hi to work colleagues, until she is no longer Delores at all, but bare footed Queen Mapusa, child of Africa, proud mother of modern civilization. Etheline Elvira Ransom is lying in bed, with a pair of scissors under her behind, waiting to teach her bullying, errant man a lesson. Odetta is a 54 year old wife and mother talking her way through the day of her secret abortion. The

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though this stance is not unproblematic: the narrator of ‘Batty Bwoy

Ploughshares

The novel’s themes include relationships with home and place

and presently makes his home in Venice

Qassim Haddad

writes novels and edits anthologies of poetry about the countryside

Salah Stétié

Greek Poetry edited by David Ricks

Tribute to novelist Hani al-Raheb

Temperance

Samuel Shimon: Royal Silver excerpt from novel