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 poem by Ukrainian poet Marjana Savka, we find the call for a realist God who fights, protects, and permits us to not forgive.
Polish writer Maciej Jakubowiak reflects on his grandmother’s absolute faith in a red blinking light, in this essay translated by Mark Ordon.
Reflecting on his own poem, Hungarian writer Árpád Tőzsér asks whether we can believe in a Cosmic Orchestra without a conductor?
Jack Kohl’s literary essay begins with a simple paradox posed by the pianist’s craft that soon transcends music into mortal and spiritual matters.
In this poem by Kateryna Kalytko, at a time of destruction, the Ukrainian poet marvels at the simplicity and the nobility of language.
In this poem, on a train winding through a burnt world towards longed-for shelter, an adult pleads to a desperate child to hold their teddy, to not cry.
While buying some “superb” illegally produced sausages, a bureaucrat tries to come to terms with the thing that lives in his office.
“collapse, rejection, resurrection, / this is what we all longed for, / this broken bread”—Béla Markó, in Anna Bentley’s translation.
“Looking for a road back to a world view that allows for sacred moments,” essayist and novelist Daphne Merkin examines her own faithlessness.
