CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney and Buenos Aires. Issue 6 contains writing from Japan, the USA, Chile, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Highlights include in-depth interviews with crime writing legend Lawrence Block, Filipino novelist Jose Dalisay, and Australian poet Judith Beveridge. We have an excerpt from Álvaro Bisama's 'Dead Stars', other new fiction by Mitsuyo Kakuta, R. Zamora Linmark, and Jon A. Jackson; and poetry by Frank Russo, Elizabeth Smither, Ouyang Yu, Richard James Allen, Iain Britton, Jamie Grant, Siobhan Hodge, Flora Delalande, Les Wicks, Stuart Barnes, Penny Florence, and Stephen Oliver. Edited by Matthew Asprey & Theodore Ell. "A periodical that moves restlessly, thrillingly among its interests and concerns...the Sydney-based Contrappasso publishes international writing of the highest order." - Los Angeles Review of Books.