HEXEN 5.0 TarotArriving at a moment when the planet itself hangs between collapse and renewal, Suzanne Treisters HEXEN 5. 0 emerges as the long awaited sequel to her cult classic HEXEN 2. 0. Its 78 luminous alchemical drawings braid together terrestrial and interplanetary technologies, synthetic genomes and geoengineering schemes, corporate technocracies and post capitalist cooperatives, mass extinction tipping points and animist awakenings. Each card presents the

new venues opened (and closed)

author of the successful play Baghdad Wedding

But when the village home she cherishes comes under threat from big city capitalists

The German word ohrworm means earworm: something replaying in the mind

strong from new friendships and rediscovered communities

for the first time together

almost the entire issue is given over to writers from Sudan – fiction

Sargon Boulus and four other poets

Henry VIII and Isabella d’Este enjoy a clandestine encounter

poems as postings

include In the Talking Hours (Figueroa

The author confesses to having been influenced by Zbigniew Herbert and Flann O'Brien at the same time