We Need More Meaning
It is time for literature to move beyond the superficial noise of the contemporary moment and deliver the rich, transformative meaning that readers so desperately need…
Europe writes itself. Again. And we are thrilled to have you here to read it.
Keep the Grammar Sane, for Word’s Sake!
Scholars say that language is a living entity, constantly shifting to reflect the society that speaks it. Yet, there is a fine line between dynamic evolution and unnecessary unravelling. In recent years, major style guides and lexicographers have approved sweeping changes to traditional English grammar rules. While proponents argue that…
Beyond Eurocentric Letters
For a magazine based in the heart of Europe’s publishing ecosystem, looking…
Money, Money, Money
In a quiet, still green clearing within the forest, the animals decided…
The Lady-upon-Avon
To keep the balance of her world, Anne built a quiet, impenetrable life of her own. She did not define herself by the poetry he sent home or the rumours that drifted down the road from the capital. She became the true master of New Place.…
The UnDracula
On a scale from 1 to 10 for famous titles that single-handedly kept their novels above the water level, Dracula sits at a 9/10…
The Giraffe That Fell From the Moon
But as the hours stretched on, the chill of space began to bite at his hooves. There were no sweet acacia leaves to nibble, no warm breezes to ruffle his patterned coat and no friends to share in his triumph. The satellite was a barren wilderness of grey dust and…
Feathered Justice
Corvinus spent his days observing Mr McBean with a critical, beady eye and delivering stern commentary on the human’s daily choices in a booming voice that sounded suspiciously like a High Court judge...…
The Last Truth Unearthed
At the edge of the scene stood a child holding an adult’s hand, watching the empty flowerbed with complete innocence. He was two years old. Twenty-five years later, he would be arrested for a murder that had already happened and had not yet begun...…
Poems & Essays by Panagiotis Tzannetatos
Fortunately, Tzannetatos avoids overly complex rhetoric in his poetry, letting simple images carry emotional depth. The prose complements the verse, acting as philosophical commentary on the themes explored poetically. The inclusion of both Greek and English text versions preserves the rhythm of the original language while making the work universally…
The Ghosts-upon-Avon (Part 1)
‘We shall never know whether Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Sir William Stanley, Anne Hathaway, even Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen herself, or anyone else wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Still, if they did not, they missed a great, unique opportunity to…
The Symbolic Calculus of Adumbrations
Long before recorded history, a handful of grey shadows attempted to escape this world. They rose together through the atmosphere, leaving mountains and oceans behind in search of whatever lay beyond the stars. None returned. Something in the fabric of the stratosphere rejected them...…
The Indie Song of the Cicadas
There is a tragic beauty in this literary ecosystem. To spend months or years crafting a universe, knowing it may only ever be read by a handful of people, perhaps family, a few loyal friends, and a stranger across an ocean, is a pure, unadulterated form of devotion…
An Exclusive Interview from Abydos
You Living Image of Ra, let us jump straight to the heart of the matter. The Great Stone Pyramid you commissioned was completed in roughly twenty years. Independent observers are deeply concerned about the human cost…
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The tension is personified by Statler and Waldorf, the two elderly cynics perched permanently in the box seats. They are the ultimate…
Books of Our Continent
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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