Fiction
Shanghai Bitter by Noémi László

A young writer who has been invited to a book opening China explores the cultural backdrop of Shanghai while also pondering her motivations as an author.

Fiction
Love Money by Ildiko Noemi Nagy

How much is love money worth? In Ildikó Noémi Nagy’s short story a Brooklyn school friendships are made and lost in ways beyond the children’s control.

Poetry
Two in the midst by Mila Haugová

Poem by Mila Haugova which touch on exclusion, compassion, the passing of time, and the consequences of the suspension of life because of Corona virus.

Art
Skin is as unique as fingerprints by Attila Lóránt

“…there are human beings with skin of almost eight billion different shades, people whose skin is as unique as their fingerprints. “

Non-Fiction
Eight billion Shades – Capturing a World of Color by Attila Lóránt

Hungarian cultural anthropologist and photographer Attila Lóránt on a Central European perspective of racism and historical racial bias in photography.

Poetry
If we indeed have souls by Zsuzsa Takács

In this poem by Hungarian Zsuzsa Takács, translated by poet George Szirtes, Eastern European trauma transforms into the spectacle of disaster tourism.

Non-Fiction
God, White, Man by Attila Bartis

The Hungarian novelist Attila Bartis on the necessity to consider his white identity in Indonesia, and what lies at the roots of racial prejudice.

Poetry
Magnetic fields of sympathy by Mila Haugová

Poem by Mila Haugova which touch on exclusion, compassion, the passing of time, and the consequences of the suspension of life because of Corona virus.

Current
To Crave the Edges of Speech by Diana Senechal

Listen with me to Cz.K. Sebő’s How could I show you the beauty of a life in vain?, my favorite album of 2021. This is not a record review.