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Come and See [Three Apocalipse Knights in the Reading of the Fourth]

by Ştefan Bolea translated by Oana Popovici click aici pentru versiunea română   The Herg Benet Publishing House opens an exciting chapter in the post-post-December Romanian literature (so post-, that maybe we should stop referring to 1989 as being our zero historical year, and decide upon 2010 instead!). Taking pride in its avant-garde and nonconformist […]

Polite. Healing

(cronica nihilistei) de Cristina Nemerovschi (Morgothya) translated from Romanian by Silvia Bratu click pentru versiunea română   The second baccalaureate session has passed with as many tears and as much heart-breaking whining as the first session which took place at the beginning of this summer. Indignant students, terribly annoyed parents furiously cursing the poor teachers […]

Poems by Ştefan Bolea

agnostic gnostic   there’s no way you can prove god exists however I know you can build an alternate system of belief a non-god arises in my soul a fallen over-god perhaps still I believe I don’t believe in myself

e-Readers: Where We’re Going and Where We’ve Been

by Dee Mason   If you’d walked up to someone just ten years ago and asked him or her how popular books will be in ten years, they’d probably tell you that they’d have become obsolete. ‘They’ll be completely out-dated and replaced by computers’, they’d likely say. Yet, here we are and books are still […]

The Rise of the Fallen

de de Lucian Mareș   The Payment As I travel to the point of origin, all is fading and black void shrouds the nexus from which all life sprouts. I find myself lost in the black void, with no compass to follow and no means to travel further. I am alone, yet the one that […]

Five Longing Notes on a Counter-note

A poetic game in five stages. by Ioana Jucan   Hand-Made   Lying in your own hands at the time that was riper than ever before and again was not the situation entirely.   All along were you planning on

Poems by Sorin-Mihai Grad

Surrogate Memory translated by Nigel Walker & Alexandra Sârbu [MTTLC student] light was falling and breaking on the ground where I had spread grass and maize-flour rolls we were listening to rammstein on the quiet drinking from half grapefruits what we had squeezed out of them and debating the price of vegetables

Writer’s block [followed by writer’s rush & final block]

by Ştefan Bolea translated by Oana Popovici click aici pentru versiunea română clique aqui para ver a versão em português   I had reached a dead end. I had commenced to cherish the virtues of the year – 1 again. The conspicuous apocrypha. The exorbitant gravitational force of melancholy. The stuffy atmosphere, the burdening spirit, […]

Boysgirls by Katie Farris, or the Power of Allegorical Fiction through Theory and Poetry

by Chris Tanasescu  Katie Farris heralds the dawn of a “new literature” with both fierce audacity and untender irony. In her first book – from Marick Press – where fiction has the taste of jaded post-history story telling and the sound of poetry in the making, she first threatens the reader with a capital (or […]

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