by Euan | Oct 15, 2019 | Front page, Uncategorized
The Writers Rebel event in Trafalgar Square. Photo by Ben Sullivan The past week or so has seen Extinction Rebellion organise massive climate protests in as many as 60 cities worldwide. On 11 October in London’s Trafalgar Square, a group within the movement...
by Euan | Aug 17, 2019 | Author news, Front page
It might appear a little quiet around these parts, but in fact we have been busy with several projects behind the scenes. The first of these to go public is a collaboration between Structo and the Amsterdam-based risograph publisher and bookbinder Otherwhere....
by Adam | Nov 21, 2018 | Front page, Reviews
What’s immediately unexpected about For Two Thousand Years is the outlook of its protagonist. As a Jewish diarist living in 1920s Romania, attending a university where anti-Semitic violence is on the rise, we might reasonably imagine him to be both scared and scathing...
by Euan | Nov 19, 2018 | Front page, Reviews
The editors of Into English, Martha Collins and Kevin Prufer, take a decentralized approach to translation. The anthology contains twenty-five poems from a range of languages and historical periods, most by poets canonical to an admittedly-Eurocentric take on world...
by Lydia | Jul 9, 2018 | Front page, Reviews
The introduction to this collection of essays exploring what it means to be, or have been, working class begins with the question I also began with: Who exactly is working class these days? Are you still working class if you’ve been to university? If you have a good...
by Euan | Mar 16, 2018 | Front page, Untranslatable
Today’s word is from Finnish and comes to us via travel and Nordic enthusiast Max Savage. Kalsarikänni (noun) the act of getting drunk in your underwear at home. This oddly specific yet relatable term is illustrated by Winnipeg based artist and illustrator Matea...
