nthposition online magazine

A Farewell to Schmaltz

review by Jim Chaffee

[ bookreviews ]

Tom Bradley's Even the Dog Won't Touch Me.

The end of certainty

by Stephen Chan

[ people - july 09 ]

The adventures that contributed to the writing of a book

Urine

by Ronald J Stone

[ fiction - july 09 ]

"There being no public urine use made by petitioner, there is no decision. Furthermore, there being no case, I dismiss all charges. So ordered."

Lost Christianity

by Joe Palmer

[ opinion - july 09 ]

"Remember that organized religion is politics, and missionaries are lobbyists for a new socio-economic order that will bring dental floss and tithes to the unwary. Religionists always serve other masters until they are strong enough in numbers to tell the government what to do."

The articulate dead

review by Tom Ruffles

[ bookreviews ]

Enjoyable but uncritical

Day and night

by Sara Goudarzi

[ opinion - july 09 ]

"As words began to accumulate on my laptop, the country also plunged into the economic sewers. I was a sewer engineer once, so expect a lot of metaphors related to excretions."

Science in contemporary fiction

review by Jim Chaffee

[ opinion | bookreviews ]

Variations on a theme of Richard Powers.

The endless rowing toward democracy

by Robert Philbin

[ opinion - july 09 ]

"There is always a marginal 'democracy deficit' at work in any social contract - a power mime inherent in the process of government which, over time, evolves to separate the will of the people from the best interests of the governing elite."

Meet the builder

by Alan McCormick

[ fiction - july 09 ]

"This is the problem, you tell some people you're a writer, and they want to be in on the act. They want you to ghost write their life and turn them into a celebrity. Ask them for specifics, and they're less forthcoming."

Open seas & A clash of civilizations

by Alistair Noon

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Balloon helicopter & We'll cross that off then

by Rupert Loydell

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Sparrows in the ditch

by Nicholas Messenger

[ poetry - july 09 ]

invention & untitled

by Ditta Baron Hoeber

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Fisher woman by the sea

by Gopi Kottoor

[ poetry - july 09 ]

The trap

by Ray Templeton

[ poetry - july 09 ]

January morning

by Erika Lorentzsen

[ poetry - july 09 ]

To my one desire

by Christopher Nield

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Freezing up blue

by Jessamyn Smyth

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Ghosts & from Parchment, scalpel, rock: cities

by George Ttoouli

[ poetry - july 09 ]

Recommended reading

My temporary son

by Timeri N Murari

[ people - february 05 ]

An orphan's tale.

The waxwing slain

by Seamus Sweeney

[ fiction - april 04 ]

"The history of literature - the movements filled with lofty ideas, the endless manifestos and counter-manifestos, the all-too-serious sense of mission - can be considered a history of envy."

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

[ cdreviews ]

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.

Random reading

A little assassination down south

by Stephen Chan

[ fiction - july 08 ]

"After that, the Dictator's own trusted lieutenants would excoriate the West, then enter negotiations with the opposition party and emerge with a lion's share of the portfolios in the new coalition government."