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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — @noonanerik.bsky.social

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

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Issue Ten — TOLKA ISBN: 978-1-7398226-8-2 Issue Ten, publishing in November 2025, is available to pre-order. It includes writing by: John Patrick McHugh Tim MacGabhann Hannah Sargeant Kim Keum Hee translated...

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux (The Husband) will appear in Issue 10 of @tolkajournal.bsky.social

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

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Issue Ten — TOLKA ISBN: 978-1-7398226-8-2 Issue Ten, publishing in November 2025, is available to pre-order. It includes writing by: John Patrick McHugh Tim MacGabhann Hannah Sargeant Kim Keum Hee translated...

an extract from @autreauxp.bsky.social 's L'Époux (The Husband) will appear in Issue 10 of @tolkajournal.bsky.social

pre-order a copy here:

www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
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The Searchers — Robert Rubsam (He began, more or less:) I don’t know why I climbed into the night. Yes, I was young and drunk and hopelessly lost. Yet fool that I was I should still have stumbled back to my room, climbed into m…

The good people at @minorliteratures.bsky.social were kind enough to publish an extract from my novel-in-progress, which I'm calling The Searchers. It's about traveling and loneliness and the fumbling struggle to reach places and people you do not understand. minorliteratures.com/2025/09/30/t...

The Searchers — Robert Rubsam (He began, more or less:) I don’t know why I climbed into the night. Yes, I was young and drunk and hopelessly lost. Yet fool that I was I should still have stumbled back to my room, climbed into m…

The Searchers — Robert Rubsam ( @robrubsam.bsky.social )

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the readings and discussion will focus on the visual arts and their interaction with/impact on literature

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Poussin:
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Cézanne:
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