The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves Format:Paperback A startling counterpoint

A startling counterpoint

The issue opens with Kuwaiti poet Saadiah Mufarreh

An Ounce of Practice is a richly populated and original novel about the toll of fighting wholeheartedly for a political cause

he imbues each fourteen-line fragment with wit

Kerry Hardie and Fred Johnston

The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves Format:Paperback A startling counterpointAfter many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit family and help care for his elderly mother. Instead, however, he finds himself at a bar, his fist inches from the face of Everardo, his sort of childhood friend. He lands the blow and runs home. But when Everardo turns up dead the next morning, JP soon finds himself blamed for a murder that he (probably) didn't commit. Whats going on? Can Lagos really be more full of drugs,