Category: In Focus

In Focus
My Grandmother and Béla – Pages from a Photo Album by Noémi Saly

In her autobiographical essay, Noémi Saly flicks through her grandmothers photo album and learns about her affair with the legendary actor Béla Lugosi.

In Focus
Excursion by Fruzsina Mesterházy

As a group of excursionists clamber on, a rock becomes a giant, a little girl appears, invisibly, and the group, now separated, get lost in time.

Fiction
Nocturnal Predators by Tamás Kötter

A group of people in a therapy session explore the more sumptuous sides of their hidden desires and touch on the intertwining of trauma and desire.

In Focus
Yesterday’s Biker by Balázs Szálinger

This beautiful, despairing poem about a biker is a love letter to someone we never missed and an obituary to a stranger we never knew.

Fiction
Through the looking glass by Sylwia Chutnik

Sylvia Chutnik’s story describes the death of Alice’s grandfather with ruthless objectivity, yet powerful emotions.