Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance moreInside this issue you’ll meet

moreInside this issue you’ll meet a selection of ordinary gay Varsovians who have shared their bodies and stories with us

from the hit @tinyhouse Instagram account

drawings made of ripped paper

along with a section introducing the Biennial’s contributors

moreThey often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism—but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce to a single story

Batlava Lake - Adam Mars-Jones performance moreInside this issue you’ll meetPristina, Kosovo, 1999. Barry Ashton, recently divorced, has been deployed as a civil engineer attached to the Royal Engineers corps in the British Army. In an extraordinary feat of ventriloquism, Adam Mars Jones constructs a literary story with a thoroughly unliterary narrator, and a narrative that is anything but comic through the medium of a character who, essentially, is. Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story