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Ervin Lázár is the creator of a genre we may safely call Central European folk surrealism, which takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration into that part of the soul where beauty, hope, and yearning live in close proximity with the harsh realities of life.

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Danse macabre. Ádám Bodor: The Birds of Verhovina

The quality of Ádám Bodor's humour is akin to the hardly perceptible smile of a Buddhist—as it appears on the smeary face of Eastern Europe. And it can turn into the grimace of horror in any given moment.

INTERVIEW

I had to create an alternative destiny for her: an interview with Elina Hirvonen

Elina Hirvonen, a Finnish writer and filmmaker visited Budapest on the occasion of the publication of her second novel in Hungarian. We talked to her about Africa, motherhood, and the link between suffering and strength.

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Our Street (extract from the novel)

Sándor Tar's prose is considered by the many as the best depiction of the human cost of the years just following the change in regime of 1989. His best known collection of short stories which most critics and readers consider a novel, Our Street (1995), presents the lives of people living in a street at the far end of a small town.

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Legendary Danube V: The happy ship

Now they had been released, and they were impudently happy, being on the point of shouting ‘Long live the Tsar!’ or ‘Long live the First Secretary!’ (or the Regent, or the chief shaman of the Hungarians), but fortunately for them they did not shout any of these things—they instinctively had more taste. Not to mention the four harsh years of their jail sentences, though admittedly those had ended.

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It's Not the Answer, But the Question: An Intervie

We thought it would be fun to do something a little unusual with this interview, as befits Craig Nova?s inventive fiction. In short, we suggested Nova ask himself [...]

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World?s hottest peppers

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One of the Coolest Publishers in the World

I first met Urvashi Butalia at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair back some years ago, and was immediately wowed. There are few people in the world as intelligent, [...]

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