CONTENTS #137

SPRING 2025

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SLOVAKIA Artist Story: Learning to Fly Katarina Krištúfková on her photography From Obscurity to a Place on the Map of World Literature Julia Sherwood on Slovak Literature in English Translation Seminars in Gastronomy and Abandoned Gardens Dado Nagy on his friendship with the late Peter Krištúfek ‘I Wanted Those Feelings Printed on the Page to Be as Raw as Possible’ Imogen Davies in conversation with Nicol Hochholczerová about This Room is Impossible to Eat Wolf Country Story by Dominika Moravčíková, translated from the Slovak by Isabel Stainsby

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NONFICTION: COALMINING The Making – and Unmanning – of the Welsh Collier Chris Moss discovers a rich seam of reflections in a comparative history, a repackaged work of nonfiction and an essay collection Isabel Alexander: Rhondda Mining Portraits from the 1940s Wrexham, Capital of Welshness: A Quilt v Hollywood Chris Moss’ travel writing focuses on ‘undertouristed’ places Prisoners, Heroes, Amnesia and ‘Housewifisation’ Ryota Nishi on the history of female miners, and the role of their experience during pit closure in Japan, Wales and the UK