PebblesMichael Rosen has been, for many years, a prodigious and prolific user of Twitter (now known as 'Eggs'). Unlike the armies of anonymous tweeters raging in the twilight, his Tweets are variously fables, squibs, musings, daily observations and lifelong preoccupations pitted prunes, anteaters, Sisyphus, the sound of rain stopping, garlic pickle, blocked sinks, lost suitcases, legs, hummus and bagels, Sats tests, Runcorn, grief, saggy jumpers, chicken

Alaa al-Aswany Two short stories

They write with brutal candour about the heart of human fragility

nuclear gamesmanship

more and more connections were revealed

Fatos Lubonja is a writer and editor of the quarterly journal Përpjekja [Endeavor]

Nat Gonella had a remarkable feeling for American jazz

Outcast by Shimon Ballas

“Nasty & funny

Henry James

translated by Stephanie Norgate

memory and love that I felt both bruised and stroked

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