Why the Good and the Bad Are So Aporetic When Applied to the “Land of the Free”
by Patrick Călinescu Friend: … all I’m saying is… Bill Bao: … “all” you’re saying?! Friend: Yes!
Tomcat Hell
by Bogdan Mureşanu translation from Romanian by Alexandra Sârbu [MTTLC] The mistress is lying idly on the divan while grabbing lazily a lemonade carafe. Just then a bead happens to glide from her red lips towards her empty chest, and then there down towards the breasts’ parting. My eyes go blear and my mind […]
poems by Michael Heller
presented by Raluca Tanasescu click aici pentru versiunea română MICHAEL HELLER (b. 1937) is an American objectivist poet, of Jewish and Romanian origins, who has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and memoirs. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other recent works include: Eschaton (2009), a book […]
poems by Felino A. Soriano
[from Of these spiraled identities] XXXVIII of this stone in-hand or hand-on stone’s relevant belly the soldered speckles of bluegreen asterisks walking from cold onto the warming U-turns
American SF literature in Romania: Ray Bradbury – „Fahrenheit 451”
[translation: Petre Solomon, Paladin Publishing, 2013] (a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron click aici pentru versiunea română Ray Bradbury (1920-2012… another recent, immense loss for culture) is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He wrote SF literature, „fantasy” literature, […]
Ana Antonescu and the new series of the Anticipaţia (issue 1-6) Collection of SF Short-Stories
(a reader’s guide to fantasy) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron click aici pentru versiunea română An exceptional phenomenon for the lovers of fantasy literature occurred in the fall of 2012 thanks to Nemira Publishing: the revival of the Anticipaţia Almanac and the magazine Collection of SF Short-Stories (book form, […]
The God of Oblivion
by Patrick Călinescu Many years ago I decided to stop being a theist. I simply can’t believe in the existence of god. Yesterday I also decided to stop being an atheist. I simply can’t believe in the non-existence of god either. I know that many think that god is either existence that has […]
The Three Brides Of The Portrait Painter
by Oliviu Crâznic Her eyes of starlight honey, her hair the golden wine, I was to paint her portrait, and then we were to dine; Her body dressed in lilies, all blossomed on her bloom, I said the words, I touched her – the White Bride left the room. I tried to cope with passion, […]
The Philosophical Porn of Pharcicall P. Doe
by Patrick Călinescu Would you like to lick the behindness of my ear? You want me to lick you behind your ear? Yes, I have a spot in the thereness of the behindness of my ear. And you want me to make you very horny by licking it till the front […]
The Dark Cosmogony of the Crux
[Şerban Andrei Mazilu, The Angellove Society: Crux, WheelMan Press, 2013] by Ştefan Bolea 1. Let me start this off by saying that Mazilu’s English is extraordinary – I never felt for a moment that this book was written by a non-native English speaker. I was impressed by the range of his vocabulary and I even […]