Casper and Fauntleroy arrive back in the village after weeks of travels and adventures. What will they find upon their return, and will they be able to save the day?

It was just like the cartoons: two hands and a boot kicking the man out the door and headlong across the sidewalk into the gutter, where he landed with a sickening thud.

It was a time of mass shootings, Paris Hilton, boys playing games that looked like war on their consoles and soldiers waging war that looked like video games from drone centers.

Excerpt from Fleur Jaeggy’s novel, The Water Statues, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff & introduced by Caitlin Woolsey, with artwork by Ilona Szwarc.

Across America, across time: Octave and Maurice leave New York, heading for eternity.

With their new ally the Cave King in tow, Casper and Fauntleroy take the crystal and return to the village. Things are moving very quickly for our heroes…can this be too good to be true?

Life is tough for a college student. In these trying times, however, dealing with these struggles with patience and grace can hardly be considered reasonable.

Two men on opposite end of screen faced each other in hieroglyphic pose; fists and elbows raised swaying in geometries as yet to me unschooled.

There is a richness in color and fullness of form in these works that drew me into them immediately, and held me there. Within them, colors and shapes seem to crumble and grind together, the complexions plow through each other and themselves.

In the world of Donda, West wants to treat pop culture as a religion, a place where sinners (abusers, lawbreakers, and killers) have the opportunity for redemption if they want it.

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.