Issue 18, Autumn 2010: Ghosts. From thin air and thick biographies they emerge, suddenly or gently, staring you down for attention. Some dance, some tie your feet. You play your patience, hold your breath, invite them for a drink. They won't go away; for death too finds it difficult to destroy what wants to live.

Yoko Ogawa

hears fish hum to a rite of passage

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José Saramago

visits a cellist who refuses time's call

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Vasily Grossman

faces the force of an immortal Madonna

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Héctor Abad

clears his past of divine wrath

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Max Frisch

grants the chance to unmarry a wife

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