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 Rain That Wouldn’t Stop
It began on a Sunday at tea time, like any decent rain. It was not a dramatic tempest with lightning and theatrical booms of thunder. It was just a polite, grey drizzle that settled over the valley town of Nethy Bridge like a damp woollen blanket…
The Dada Tale of a Blue Rabbit
Bobby did not take a ship, for ships are far too watery and have a dreadful habit of pointing towards the horizon. Instead, he boarded a tram made entirely of Tuesday afternoons…
0.00% Crunch
It was 100% chemical perfection. No gluten to inflame the gut. No sugar to spike the blood. No fat to clog the tubes. No salt to strain the pump. It was a perfectly engineered, mathematically flawless fuel for a perfectly miserable existence.…
The Forest Purgatory
As a Detective Inspector, I had seen my share of grim discoveries in the Icelandic highlands, but the skull sitting in the black mud was entirely different. It wore rusted wire-rimmed reading glasses, and inside them, a miniature wood stretched into a misty distance…
An Intriguing Avant-Garde Proposition (Part 2)
Following on from yesterday’s article, here is the promised exhaustive critique of the 100-word text written in an invented language…
An Intriguing Avant-Garde Proposition (Part 1)
Plonk jorping quax, yornek slithered frob. Whick vriz quaffle, trundling gribble xylar plink. Grust zol, flizz triffled yornek. Xylar vraz glorped, bronting slithy unk…
The David and Goliath Reckoning
David looked at the screen. He watched the stern, unblinking face of Goliath spinning his webs of grand delusions. A lesser man might have despaired. A more traditional politician might have issued a dry, multi-page diplomatic protest…
The Strange Case of Dr Frankenstein and Mr Adam*
For months, the townspeople had whispered about the reclusive nature of the brilliant doctor. They spoke of strange noises echoing from his estate at midnight, and of the towering, cloaked figure seen slipping through the alleyways in the dead of night…
The Telegraph Sold to a German Media Giant
The interview takes place on The Ink & Penny coffee house’s small, slightly crowded terrace, located directly across the road from the Daily Telegraph building, just off Fleet Street, near the eastern end of The Strand…
“X-perimental Prose”
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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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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