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Poetry
Lie Detector by Petra Szőcs

In this polygraphic poem, by Petra Szőcs, we discover whether any truths are revealed when one’s heart becomes the subject of a lie detector test.

Interview
“It Was the Hotel that Picked Me” – an interview with Tony Notarberardino by Balázs Keresztes

Long-time resident of the Chelsea Hotel, photographer and filmographer Tony Notarberardino shares his personal anecdotes about the legendary dim of artists.

Interview
Gloom for Laughter by Márton Méhes

A conversation with crime writer Thomas Raab about the origins of mean-spirited Austrian humor, the ability to stumble and laugh at oneself, and the hopeless search for the ultimate answer.

Art
The Promise of Faith by Continental Magazine

Imagine our ancestors, millennia ago, roaming the wilderness. Painting a cave, chipping a stone, gazing into the fire. What faith means to them we cannot know but undoubtedly: they did believe in something.

Non-Fiction
Some of the Beauty is Still in Me by Cornelius Hell

In his personal essay, Austrian writer Cornelius Hell looks back on his own youth and analyses ” personal beauty” with references to local cultural history.

Non-Fiction
The Hungarian Law That Blocked Women’s Education by Hope Reese

In her horrifyingly factual essay, American journalist Hope Reese writes about the tragic fates of Hungarian women under the shadow of the 1920’s sntisemitic laws.

Poetry
Retreat by Marcin Sendecki

Sendecki’s poem is a plot of image and meaning with a characteristically dramatic aura, its microscenes simultaneously intriguing and disturbing.

Fiction
Visit by László Sepsi

In the criminal underworld of László Sepsi’s upcoming novel Territorium, talk never really was an option and violence comes with the territory.

Poetry
pictures from an exhibition * by Peter Šulej

A poem with a unique strategy of internal, authorial intertextuality, not merely literary play, but a means of perceiving the world.