The Cave King takes Casper and Fauntleroy to see a special crystal of his. What he reveals about his relation to their friend the Chemist, however, presents issues for our heroes.

Leaving the big city is not easy for Octave, and he’s not making it easy on anyone else either!

Eight poems from Matvei Yankelevich’s cycle From a Winter Notebook, accompanied by Hannah Whitaker’s photographs.

One generation ago, the Internet was a very different place. What was cool then might get your kids in trouble today, and not in the way you might think!

No sooner have Casper and Fauntleroy entered the caves than they are face to face with the Cave King himself! Will this monarch prove a friend…or a foe?

The act of writing, as Mancinelli conceives of it, takes her into her darkroom, a “place of the unknown, where [her] demons nestle [and her] most tenacious and impenetrable shadows [can be found].”

Deliver what? Deliver truth? Deliver us? For a poet engaged in composing “the secular word,” there is something disturbingly messianic about Heller’s vision.

Selections from Intact (2018) by Claudia Masin, translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers.

The plucky Octave and Maurice return to the city that never sleeps, ensuring many sleepless nights for the populace for years to come!

Rocketing through caves and over pits, Casper and Fauntleroy begin properly begin their adventure together.

They say entering a new chapter of your life can be transformative. As Ruby notes, however, that transformation can be anything but easy…or predictable!

He was not a literary artist in the sense that his work doesn’t seem to wrestle with questions of form; he’s not attempting to reinvent the surrealist modes at his disposal but rather making use of them as vehicles for his insurgent imagination and apocalyptic vision, the fury of which elevates his writing above and beyond the mere assemblage of irrational word combinations.

A work of art has never graced the cover of the journal October. Since the first issue was published in 1976, the front cover has only ever carried the journal’s allusive title, spelled out in large capitalised letters underneath the smaller italicised headings of ‘art’, ‘theory’, ‘criticism’ and ‘politics’ (in that order).

Octave sets off with Maurice, who is still busy answering his questions. What will he learn, and what lies in store for them as they set out on the next leg of their adventure?

At long last: Casper and Fauntleroy are reunited! What lies in store for our heroes now that they are together?

Maurice has arrived to rescue Octave, but how did he get there? Octave acts as inquisitor in this installment, and Maurice’s answers range from predictable to fantastic!

This week Ruby pulls back the curtain and shows her comics making process. Long story short? It ain’t easy.

Today I begin in earnest. What does it matter that my thoughts are clouded? A light will shine through in the end.

How do we know something really happened unless it is recreated and simplified dramatically by a diverse ensemble cast, headed by Jeff Daniels, and captured on blue tinted film?

“Imagine an encounter that goes unreported by language.”