Rain Taxi Rain Taxi?s a literary magazine with…
Rain Taxi
Rain Taxi?s a literary magazine with impressive range, and perhaps the edge that you might think is missing from a lot of ?highbrow? literary culture (not me though). Its website is undergoing redevelopment. Still, there?s more than enough already to be going on with. In the latest issue, MJ Fitzgerald has written a short introduction to the work of one of Britain?s best yet unsung writers, Rosalind Belben. I happen to be reading her latest novel Hound Music, which Fitzgerald says ?succeeds in showing the sport of fox-hunting - so relentlessly condemned by animal activists that its practice has almost disappeared - as a complex and highly ritualized engagement with the countryside, with nature and with animals rather than a simple cruel slaughtering of the defenseless.? So that?s alright then. Maybe the Nazi?s should have dressed jews in fox outfits, set dogs onto them and called it a ?tradition?. Personally, I?m against fox hunting because I hate the cruelty but also the people involved. I want to spite them. Nature is cruel, yes, and I?m against nature too.
There?s tons of other stuff on the site too, mainly reviews of poetry, novels and non-fiction. But there?s even an article on Lee ?Scratch? Perry. I'm listening to De Devil Dead right now, in which he sings "Lee 'Scratch' Perry legalise ganga, chicky chicky chicky chicky chick."
And why not?
