Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance moreInside this issue you’ll meet

moreInside this issue you’ll meet a selection of ordinary gay Varsovians who have shared their bodies and stories with us

the first special economic zone of China

and Tiberi Club

moreThey often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism—but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story

Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance moreInside this issue you’ll meetPristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story