Issue Number 5, 2015

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Joris-Karl Huysmans on books, reading, and writers
an excerpt from Against Nature, translated by Havelock Ellis

a broadside tuck-in, bearing a quote from Alberto de Lacerda

clippings reprinted from To-Day: a Boston Literary Journal (1852) and The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction (1840)

An H-word Aria by Peter Koch

Ben Mazer explains his poem "The Double"

An evocative text from the jacket-flaps of
The Congress of the Animals by Jim Woodring

Fiction:

• Fable
  by Paul Blumer
• The Town of Luck
  by Keith Botsford (part 1 of 2)
• A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
  by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Two poems by Joanna Grant

Facebooklets! Prose gleanings from the social media activity of Umit Singh Dhuga (writing on ballet inter alia) and Mikhail Iossel (in appreciation of Bill Corbett)

Three excerpts from The Mask by Gordon Craig

A cat sketch by Cat Dossett; diagrams from Cotton Mather's scientific society; and a gallery of South Asian book covers.

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