Banipal 54 - EchoesBanipal 54 ECHOES is a grand panoply of literature in which history, memory and real life reverberate against each other and sing to each other new songs by authors from Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and Libya. A feature on leading Iraqi playwright and director Jawad al Assadi includes his play Baghdadi Bathhouse, and the Guest Literature section from the Berlin Festival on The Future of Cities features Roddy Doyle, Rawi Hage,

London Review of Books

Halim Barakat: Excerpt from the novel The Crane

the most important object in our lives

but counterpointing her celebration of the erotic

with its dreamlike take on the evolution of the undead

in these poems Rodenbach presents the decaying Bruges as a medieval corpse

has never lost touch with the people and is a keen listener to the history his great uncle tells him must inform his actions

No one’s springing to attention

His Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum and the My Garden trilogy are still used by gardeners around the world

Deborah Tyler-Bennett's previous books include Clark Gable in Mansfield and Take Five (2003)

as well as their growing — and dangerous — love for one another

Featuring new work by: Pascale Petit - whose work The Huntress is short-listed for this T