The Ringmaster’s ApprenticeHardwicks world closely resembles our own until we look close and see a retired Elvis gardening in suburbia, Charlie Chaplin weaving between the stalled cars on the M25, and dragons grandchildren whispering under the bed. Its a world where the ghosts of Bacchantes stir the sleep of cats, a mysterious woman struggles with her umbrella on every street corner, and flowers fall unexpectedly from a clear sky. Above all, it is a world of illumination, in

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a commitment to his writing and boundless cynicism about writers and the arts industry

The plays and their writers have been chosen because they encompass dramatically different writing styles and can be seen as representative of the type of work that women playwrights are undertaking in Catalonia today

won an award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival

of great stars out east down roads

'The North begins inside'

Banipal 42 focuses on the literature being written now in the United Arab Emirates

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar

Clarke’s first novel rages against the ‘White’ alliance of the land-owning class and the church

Susannah Tarbush: Sun on a Cloudy Day by Hanna Mina

Sabah Zwein

João de Jesus Paes Loureiro