| Editor's welcome | 2 |
| Contents | 4 |
| Osvalds Zebris: In the Shadow of Rooster Hill (excerpt) | 6 |
| Edvīns Raups: then touch me here (ten poems) | 32 |
| Jānis Einfelds: The Feast of Liars (excerpts) | 48 |
| Prologue | 51 |
| Friends | 52 |
| Pastele Island | 57 |
| Jacob’s Puppet Theatre | 60 |
| Māra Zālīte: Five Fingers (excerpt) | 74 |
| Inga Ābele: Roar (excerpt) | 94 |
| Nora Ikstena: Naģe (a short story) | 104 |
| Niillas Holmberg: Six poems | 122 |
| The Poseidon of Misery | 125 |
| If I Were Young | 126 |
| Walls and Overcast | 127 |
| A Lesson from an Ancestor | 128 |
| Hanshan | 129 |
| The Executioner | 130 |
| Georgi Tenev: Party Headquarters (excerpt) | 134 |
| Dorta Jagić: Kafka’s Knife (six poems) | 160 |
| Lady Hester Stanhope | 163 |
| Isabella Bird | 166 |
| Lilias Trotter | 169 |
| Gladys Aylward | 171 |
| Clara Swain | 173 |
| Freya Stark | 175 |
| Dimitris Lyacos: With the People from the Bridge (excerpt) | 178 |
| About the photographers | 192 |
| Acknowledgments | 196 |