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The Light in the Cemetery

by Douglas Young      Ellis Hawkins and Julep McBride sat together on the high school bus taking them home on a late Friday spring afternoon. They had grown up next door to each other on Woodlawn Avenue across the street from the largest local cemetery. Born weeks apart, Julep and Ellis were playmates from the […]

Translate? Trans-Great!

by Andrew Evans Well, I had done it again. I had gotten myself lost, in a new and bustling world city. My lust for adventure and culture had become a source of amusement to my family and friends. I was constantly blundering around blindly, oozing a false sense of confidence in my non-existent orienteering skills.

What does to be radical mean?

[Alexander the Great and the Gordian knot model] by Ana Bazac Etymologically, to be radical means to go to the “root of the matter”, that “for man, … is man himself”[i]. But this simple explanation is inherently abstract, if it is not developed in its multi facets concreteness. *** One aspect of the radicalness of thinking […]

“Poetry is the process of turning that raw metal of experience into an aesthetic object”

[interview with Nazmi Ağıl] by Monica Manolachi It is June 2023 and we are at the University of Bucharest, where the 24th edition of the Annual International Conference of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures usually takes place. The small two-floor building in Pitar Moș Street, which has hosted the event […]

What Americans Missed: Cancer, Choreographed

by Catalina Florina Florescu Abstract: This is a reflection post performance of the last piece of my trilogy on breast cancer. The views expressed here are solely mine. Keywords: (breast) cancer; choreography; joie de vivre ; community.    Part 1: Anatomy of a word When I first heard the word cancer, I was a teen. I was […]

artificially generated disappointment

[a failed interview with chat gpt] by Sorin-Mihai Grad I tried to find answers to some key questions from the hero of the day and everyone’s darling chat gpt. Unfortunately, its sense of humor is still a work in progress. Below you can read a transcript of our discussion. What nobel prize is beavis most […]

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