Berfrois

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Glittering Game Boards

Glittering Game Boards

‘Literature is a contact sport’

‘While Garcia Marquez keeps his language relatively spare-he was writing for a newspaper, after all-there are frequent glimmers of the great descriptive powers that would later animate his novels.’

‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti
Poem: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti
‘Kushinagar’ by Joe Sacco
Graphic novel excerpt: ‘Kushinagar’ by Joe Sacco
An Art Critic in Africa
Photo essay: An Art Critic in Africa
‘The Spoiler’ by Annalena McAfee
Book excerpt: ‘The Spoiler’ by Annalena McAfee
‘The Medicine and the Meat’ and ‘A. Square’s Advice for Three Dimensional Shapes’ by John Freeman
Poems: ‘The Medicine and the Meat’ and ‘A. Square’s Advice for Three Dimensional Shapes’ by John Freeman
Early Torture in the Americas
Image gallery: Early Torture in the Americas