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.
In this advice to a young poem, the speaker praises the resilience and healing qualities of mysterious, elusive, and almost shapeless poetry.
Hungarian writer György Ferdinandy, who fled Hungary after 1956, reflects on a love story in this short essay translated by Márton Mészáros.
In this poem by Ukrainian poet Iya Kiva, a “refugee-person” offers a self-definition that is as violent and sorrowful, as it is defiant and elusive.
An interview with US author, activist, and spiritual thought leader Marianne Williamson on politics and spirituality today in the US.
Hungarian writer Andrea Tompa reflects on how all faiths simultaneously desire embodiment, in an essay translated by Bernard Adams.
János Háy asks, why write for foreign readers about Sándor Petőfi, a great poet of a tiny linguistic community, a deceased colleague, a revolutionary?
At Lăteşti Camp, a new arrival, Arinca, develops a reputation for her stormy love life, frequent escapes, and ability to find bodies.
“So, when I write, I should / keep your commandment—but how?” a poem by Hungarian poet Zsófia Balla, in Anna Bentley’s translation.
