The Edges of Wilderness
The Edges of Wilderness
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.
A poem by the British poet and translator, born in Budapest, George Szirtes.
András Dezső investigates the stories of three Hungarian gangsters who defected from 1980s communist Hungary for the Los Angeles underworld.
George Szirtes introduces our poets, and considers the topography of craving and its synonyms; the terrain, landmarks, and boundaries.
In this essay, Lina Mounzer ponders how violent conflicts over the possession of spaces transform the world in which an artist creates.
Two poems, College Library Toilets and Tan Oil by Hungarian poet András Gerevich, in Andrew Fentham’s translation, for our focus of “Crave”.
In this novel excerpt, a woman involved in an affair ponders the ways in which the shadows of the past hang over the cravings of the present.
Religious attitudes, architecture, and adventure combine in a boy’s life, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.
A boy walks alone through the changing layers of leaves, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.
A child gets a life (or non-life) lesson, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.
