#Budapest
Interview
A mysterious box containing an exceptional family story across eight generations
by Viktória Stift
A box found among the ashes of a house fire launches Linda Ambrus Broenniman on a quest to discover the truth behind her family’s biggest secret.
In Focus
My Grandmother and Béla – Pages from a Photo Album
by Noémi Saly
In her autobiographical essay, Noémi Saly flicks through her grandmothers photo album and learns about her affair with the legendary actor Béla Lugosi.
Non-Fiction
The Grass and the Night Sky
by Krisztina Rita Molnár
In this novel excerpt, Krisztina Rita Molnár writes about her mother, raising four children alone, in a two-bedroom apartment in Budapest.
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.
