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.
Storm, flood and overflowing river: Csenger Kertai talks about love in his poem with strong, impressionistic images.
In this impressionistic love poem by Csenger Kertai, the confession of a lover intermingles with the image of the Maypole.
American expat in Prague, Michael Stein recalls the various opportunities the haunted historic city confronted him with his Jewish heritage.
In Márta Júlia Nagy’s poem, a home for beautiful crazy girls lies rotting as if from a modern nightmare or a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.
In this short story by András László, a nameless narrator recounts the grim tale of Károly Kósa Jr., Károly Kósa Sr. and the bloody axe.
The Hungarian poet János Marno considers the bright optimism of the ageing Jorge Luis Borges in the face of death, and a new life in Buenos Aires.
A detective story with a touch of Czech humor, a “comic detective novel” by one of the most successful Czech crime writers.
A poetry of unrest and hidden dangers in everyday life, which confronts readers with a world seemingly familiar, and yet surprising in its reality.
Bestselling Hungarian crime novelist Vilmos Kondor investigates the illusive Eastern European noir and its impossibility under socialist dictatorship.
