The next issue of “Here”, entitled “children”, will come out by the end of December 2011. It will be the final issue of the review.
Contents: This Is the Last Issue of “Here”, by Massimo Parizzi. Diary pages: “Our son is our reason to panic” (from Uijeongbu, South Korea); “when children go outside at school, they are free to wear a mask and a hat or not” (from Kawagoe, Japan); “to not go back to being a child of the streets ever again” (from San Salvador). Kinshasa, Congo. Child Witches, by Maria Patrizia Salatiello. Persian Lullaby, a poem by Chandra Livia Candiani. Diary pages: “Marta’s concern for Jesus” (from Moscow); “they called me ‘patroncito’, little boss” (from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia); “daddy, there was teargas and bombs near our school” (from Kampala, Uganda); my reaction to the announcement of bin Laden’s death (by Omar Abdi, born in Somalia). The Lightness of War, an essay by Gianluca Giachery. Diary pages: “It feels strange to write this, but I truly had a great time up in Fukushima” (from Tokyo); “when we walk hand in hand, who is the one leading, really?” (from Palermo, Italy); “Jasmine, also known as Rachele, is nine years old” (from Bologna, Italy). Children in Huaro, Peru, by Silvano Roi. Diary pages: “I paid a visit to Anne Frank’s house” (by Eman Al Nafjan, Saudi Arabia); If God Loses Consciousness, an essay by Marosia Castaldi about Abraham Yehoshua’s The Lover. Diary pages: “Yesterday afternoon, my 4-year-old student decides that his blue blanket is a giant wave” (from Tokyo); “Marta asked if it was possible for a tree to insure itself against a storm” (from Moscow); “it’s mango season” (from Havana). At Five O’Clock the Cicada Stops, a poem by Marina Massenz. Diary pages: “My youngest daughter has ten pillbugs as pets” (from Kawagoe, Japan); “the dragonflies are there” (from Zubiena, Italy); “it’s a strange pride, difficult to explain” (from San Salvador); “I am 14 and I go to a private school in Kabul”; “I had the sensation of flying, a swallow among the swallows” (from Zubiena, Italy).


