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PSYCHIC EYE

I read the sign and climb a stair. The office door is smoky glass. Inside, a radio plays jazz. I go in. He points to a chair. He’s shabby, but he don’t look dumb. His voice is booze and cigarettes: a weary voice, full of regrets. A gumshoe, laid back, chewing gum. I tell him: “You’re a Psychic Eye. I…

Dramatis Personae

More than a simple collection of interviews, this book reads like a television docuseries ready for production. It seamlessly pairs the intimacy of a live stream with the high-stakes, speculative storytelling found on premium networks like Discovery or the History Channel…

The Booker vs. The Nobel

September 29, 2026
While the Nobel Prize in Literature is widely considered the ultimate lifetime honour in letters, the Booker Prize holds several distinct advantages that make it more valuable and impactful within the contemporary publishing landscape for active readers and for authors’ immediate careers…

The Comfort Trap

August 19, 2026
Ray Bradbury’s 1953 masterpiece is often reduced to a simple warning against bibliophobia and state-enforced censorship. However, framing the novel merely as an anti-book-burning crusade misses its deeper, far more sinister critique: the destruction of literature in Guy Montag’s world was not initiated by a tyrannical government fearing books, but…

𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖐 𝐓𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕹𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝑾𝖆𝖘

To review a book that contains not a single word feels initially like a nonsensical exercise in literary absurdity. Yet 𝐓𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝙄𝖘 𝑺𝖎𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊, printed in London in the late spring of 1598, is perhaps the most radical artifact in the history of the bound volume. Published exactly one year…

The Release D-day

July 18, 2026
If you enjoy Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Scandinavian crime fiction, and intelligent procedural thrillers, Frozen Truths delivers nine unforgettable journeys into few of the coldest crime scenes on Earth, where the smallest detail can melt the strongest lie…

“X-perimental Prose”

June 29, 2026
The first official call for submissions is just around the corner. Sharpen your pencils. Open those neglected draft folders. Pretend you always intended to finish that piece. Until submissions open in a few hours, we will be publishing fresh content online every day. Explore the magazine, discover new writers and…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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