Triumph Street, BucharestBucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of a courtyard block inhabited by a dozen Jewish families and two Christian ones. When Romania, under General Ion Antonescus dictatorship, allies itself with Hitler and invades the USSR, the Jews in Bucharest face the threat of being sent to the Nazi extermination camps, after having survived the terror of

Like Stevie Smith she writes children's rhymes for grown-ups

not quite an autobiography

is acknowledged and celebrated in The Night Library

acceptance

all city power and perfume

and a new translation of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński’s major modernist poem ‘A Trip to Świder’ by Renata Senktas and Christopher Reid

Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972

No matter how ludicrous it may sound now

Once again in these selections from his Dutch short story collection De derde persoon

might be understood as a gesture towards a truly radical reimagining

The editors

the editors Jean Boase-Beier and Marian