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Le Cirque
Rawi Hage
Rawi Hage
Rawi Hage was born in Beirut and lived through nine years of the Lebanese civil war. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator, and he resides in Montreal. His photographs been shown in Canada, Colombia, Lebanon and Japan.
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Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid
Various Contributors
‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’
In Conversation | Amina Cain & Patrick Cottrell
Amina Cain & Patrick Cottrell
‘Without obsession, I don’t think I’d get anywhere.’
Two authors discuss atmosphere, obsession and going ‘too far’.
Haunted Houses
Laura Maw
‘Ghost stories, then, are not always characterised by fear. Sometimes, they are stories of belief, comfort, faith.’
Laura Maw on the photography of Corinne May Botz.
In The Event
Eva Warrick
‘The sky hung bizarrely brownish and heavy below a pink teacup sun, like a portent of the outer space invasion.’
A story by Eva Warrick.
Two Poems
James Conor Patterson
‘i think again, love, that t believe in this / would be t chapen the accident of our own gift’
Two poems from James Conor Patterson’s collection, bandit country.
