Volume 6, Issue 3 Spring 2017

For the PDF of the current issue, please see the following link: The Mercurian 6.3 Spring 2017. All past issues can be found under Index.

Editor’s Note 6.3

Blossoming trees and flowers, along with the attendant pollen they bring to allergic eyes, noses, and throats, demonstrate that Spring has come to Chapel Hill. That also means that it is time for the Spring 2017 issue of The Mercurian.

A Fiery Young Man: Or, an Incendiary Lover

By Enriqué Zumel
Translated by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom

Through that terrible crone’s interfering,
I move on from this place empty-handed.
From your hands we’d like to be hearing
Applause as the room you are clearing,
If pleased you “A Fiery Young Man” did.

When Five Years Pass (Legend of Time)

By Federico García Lorca
Translated by Luigi Salerni

I don’t think it will occur to the other woman or the lady Secretary to come around here again when five years pass, but if they should come…

Review: Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution.

Reviewed by Kristin Johnsen-Neshati

Stories throughout the collection remind us of unparalleled acts of courage, generosity and camaraderie from those days, as well as feelings of guilt for some, and for others the end of fear.