Real Review, Issue 18 Writing Experience the flavours of the

Experience the flavours of the wild in our wilderness cooking adventure across Iceland with Theophilos Constantinou and 66°North

The fourth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich’s talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry

among many other offerings

operatic dive into the darkest recesses of the AIDS crisis

Annabel Keijzer

Real Review, Issue 18 Writing Experience the flavours of theREAL REVIEW 18 PRETENDING THE WORLD To pretend means to "lay claim" to stretch forward and take hold of what we want, as if it already existed, or were already ours. To pretend is thus to call forth another reality and create truth through the power of conviction alone. It is fashionable to ridicule performative gestures as ineffective posturing. Yet this is literally the only way that new societies come into being. This issue of Real Review is