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Avid reader Andor Femin and the narrator of this flash fiction don’t always see eye to eye, but their observations about reading are always amusing.
Andor Femin…
Erika Mihálycsa
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- Photo by AVTG / Stock.adobe.com Translator’s note: Gizella Hervay (1934–1982) is sometimes referred to as the “Ingeborg Bachmann of Transylvania.” Mostly neglected by criticism durin…
- New York. Contra Mundum Press. 2020. 147 pages. IT’S RAINING IN MOSCOW is the first collection of stories in English by Zsuzsa Selyem, a well-known Transylvanian Hungarian a…
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Photo: Ray Hennessy / Unsplash In May 1974, in New York’s René Block Gallery at 409 West Broadway, Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) carried out his performance “I Like America and America L…
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After deciding to end it all, a woman takes a final subway ride. Z, the story writer, decided to end her diary. What is more, with an eye on approaching Christmas, she would adorn it with sta…
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Photo by Zsolt Andrasi/FlickrGlints of the tram. The nondescript housesdream numb underwater dreams. Faces aretransparent bubbles popping off from the windowswhere water used to break through. The ped…
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Photo: Funkyfood London - Paul Williams / AlamyAlong the shore of the Danube, a cat reflects on world history and human nature. From Oppenheimer to Donne to Stalin to Ana Pauker the musin…
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Open book on a bed. Photo by Steve Petrucelli 9:40 a.m. / Venipuncture The way they step on one another’s heelsuntil a spindle-legged woman with dyedhair trips in the queue, and all stickthe…
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Gustav Klimt, Allée in the Gardens of Schloss Kammer, 1912, oil on canvas. Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria / Artothek / Bridgeman imagesRide the tram thro…
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Image: © Masha watercolorIn this story, Hungarian author Zsófia Bán writes into a little-known episode from Hungary’s tangled and traumatic pre–and post–World War II history, centered aro…
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Photo by Raul LieberwirthThe great games will be remembered for a lifetime, just as we cannot give up on our failures, either. The muscles record the beautiful strokes; the possi…
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Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912, oil on wood (32 x 39.8 cm). © 2015 Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria. www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/leopoldcollection/masterpieces/33On VisionWal…
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The Voyager Space Probe passing Jupiter. Image generated with Celestia; 3D model by ElChristou Beginning with the Voyager space launch and moving through expl…
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Illustration by Marla JohnsonIn this page from his cookbook, one of most original writers in the Hungarian language imagines an unexpected solution for the unfaithful husband.Rózsika…
- Enjoy this recipe from the Zsolt Láng cookbook and look forward to two more in WLT’s September issue.Illustration by Marla JohnsonProd the freshly picked memory meticulously with a f…
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Illustrations by Marla Johnson. Typography by Jen Rickard Blair.Yao Ming WineryRENDEZ-VOUSWhite cuvéeDry/0.75/€9.99A gift from heaven after all those swills not worth calling by the name whos…