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Our latest magazine Issue 07 “obsession“ gathers new fiction, poetry, and personal essays from a growing community of contributors writing against the noise of the contemporary literary world.
Nobody/Outis: Odysseus, Bloom, and the Art of Absent Identity
On June 16, 1904, Leopold Bloom is making his way along the Liffey, and what…
The Phenomenology of Staying: Notes Toward a Discipline of Attention
My grandmother would kneel in the garden for hours. She had a way of looking…
Portrait of My Heart
In my favorite memory of my Heart, she is making me tea in glass jars…
To Live Like Gods: What We Devour for Gold Wealth, Desire and Moral Corruption in The Secret History and All That Glitters
The sun bounced off the dark blue water and the wind rustled the leaves of…
The Morality of Being Misled: Why Literature Teaches Us to Love the Wrong Characters
Literature has always been fascinated by morally questionable people. We follow murderers, liars, narcissists, tyrants,…
No Exit From the Kingdom
Eugène Ionesco confessed that he wrote “Exit the King” in order to learn how to…
Between Planets and Hearbeats – The Little Prince
Because of its many translations, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is a beloved book…
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