My Grandmother and Béla – Pages from a Photo Album
In her autobiographical essay, Noémi Saly flicks through her grandmothers photo album and learns about her affair with the legendary actor Béla Lugosi.
My Grandmother and Béla – Pages from a Photo Album
In her autobiographical essay, Noémi Saly flicks through her grandmothers photo album and learns about her affair with the legendary actor Béla Lugosi.
Excursion
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.
Excursion
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.
Nocturnal Predators
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.
Nocturnal Predators
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.
Yesterday’s Biker
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.
Yesterday’s Biker
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.
Through the looking glass
Sylvia Chutnik’s story describes the death of Alice’s grandfather with ruthless objectivity, yet powerful emotions.
Through the looking glass
Sylvia Chutnik’s story describes the death of Alice’s grandfather with ruthless objectivity, yet powerful emotions.
The speaker describes the sounds and movement of bugs, birds, and nature, while waiting for war, as if they were impervious to human events.
In this long poem by Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova, language is found empty and ineffective, and the poet still more powerless than before.
Szabolcs is living in a yurt, where he seeks refuge from life’s upheavals in lore and myths, when he collides with a younger generation.
In a crowded elevator leaving the 17th floor, six-year-old Ricardo and his mother meet two complete strangers, when an incident occurs.
Craving is a heightened state of longing, which always carries with it a sense of hopelessness, of the impossibility of fulfilment.
A poem by the award-winning Polish poet Tomasz Różycki, translated into the English by Mira Rosenthal, for the Continental Literary Magazine’s focus of “Crave”.
Written before Russia’s invasion, Hungarian writer Diána Vonnák explores the lives sucked into the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014.
A poem by the British poet and translator, born in Budapest, George Szirtes.
