Deus Loci NS 18 (2026)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editors

• James M. Decker, James Gifford, & Anne R. Zahlan, guest editors

Essays

• Vassilis Letsios “Lawrence Durrell as Reader and Translator of Greek Wartime Poetry: Sikelianos, Seferis, and the Translation Networks of the 1940s”
• Werner H. Rubrecht “Durrell’s Alexandrian Politics”
• Omar Sabbagh “Oceanic Logics: Science, Mysticism, and Method in Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet“
• Ian S. MacNiven “Demythologizing Durrell”

Features

• Lyn Goldman “A 1986 Interview with Lawrence Durrell”
• David Nigel Lloyd “Sailing Unerringly Towards Death: In which a Folk Singer Ponders Lawrence Durrell’s Struggle with Nothingness”
• Ian S. MacNiven “On Writing About Larry Durrell”

Poetry

• The White Mice Poetry Contest: A Brief History
  • David Radavich
• An Introduction to the 2025 White Mice Contest
  • Rod Kessler
• Gabrielle (Gaby) LeMay “On the Runway with Guns“
• Jane Maltby “Penelope“
• Judymay Murphy “Let’s Steal a Boat“
• Jeremy Pak Nelson “Migration Inheritance“
• Cal Brogan “In Irish There Are Nine Directions“
• Stephanie Saywell “Fortune Telling My Older Self“
• Helen Smith “washed up“

Reviews

• Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat edited by Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan
• James Gifford, Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell 1912–45 by Michael Haag
• James Decker, A Joyous Transformation: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1966–1977 by Anaïs Nin
• Doris White, Here’s Plenty by David Radavich

Bibliography

• Grove Koger “Durrell Bibliography: 2015–2018”

Notes on Contributors