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EDGY. CLASSY. CENTRAL EUROPEAN.

THE TIME TO START READING IS TODAY! From Central Europe to the United States The Continental Literary Magazine is your thematic quarterly English-language literary and public affairs journal.

It is a shared platform providing a space for Central and Eastern European literature to gather ground abroad, and to form a partnership with English literature.

This is Central European literature, culture, and traditions as they are — edgy and classy, just like our motto.

ENGAGE WITH OUR AUTHORS Those who have written for our journal include the author of the bestselling Bad Feminist Roxane Gay, the well-known columnist of The New York Times and Vanity Fair Judith Newman, literary critic, and novelist Daphne Merkin, writer, poet, critic, university professor, and manager of The New Yorker David Galef, as well as writer, lawyer, and author of The Golden Flea and Pasquale’s Nose Michael Rips.

ENHANCE YOUR ANALYTICAL THINKING Read our interview with the remarkable linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky or the legendary performance artist Marina Abramović. What’s more, the repeat New York Times bestselling author, cultural advisor of Oprah Winfrey, political influencer, and editor of Newsweek Marianne Williamson has also sat with the magazine. And there are many more literary and public names to come, in our exclusive deep interview in every issue.

TRANS­LATION TAKEN SERIOUSLY Works submitted by our excellent contributing translators are read by our international team of editors and edited in close collaboration with the translator and the author, guaranteeing fantastic reading for our worldwide audience.

MEET OUR CENTRAL EUROPEAN AUTHORS We have shared with our American readers the works of many talented Central European writers, both well-known and emerging.

Anna Terék (HU), Kinga Tóth (HU), Róbert Hász (HU), András Cserna-Szabó (HU), Andrea Tompa (HU) János Háy (HU) János Háy came of age under communism and to literary prominence under capitalism. He is the author of over two dozen volumes of poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as of frequently staged plays. Much of his work is informed by his peasant origins, his early embrace of alternative culture, and his insight into the maladies of modern society. Critics have noted his inventive use of language and striking narrative techniques.

Tomáš Zmeškal (CZ), Lenka Kuhar Daňhelová (CZ), Pavla Horáková (CZ),Jan Němec (CZ) Tomáš Zmeškal (CZ) Tomáš Zmeškal (born 1966) is a Czech writer. In 1987, he left the then-Czechoslovakia to live in London, where he studied English language and literature at King‘s College. He taught at Charles University for a while, and currently teaches in high school. Zmeškal was lauded for his debut novel Love Letter in Cuneiform Script.

MEET OUR CENTRAL EUROPEAN AUTHORS Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało (PL), Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki (PL), Weronika Gogola (PL), Maciej Jakubowiak (PL) Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki (PL) Polish writer and poet, author of several collections of short stories and short novels as well as two volumes of poetry. After studying theology and philosophy and travelling around Europe, he spent ten years in Reykjavík studying the language and Icelandic literature.

Marek Vadas (SK), Silvester Lavrík (SK), Michal Habaj (SK), Vladimír Balla (SK) Mila Haugová (SK) Mila Haugová is a Slovak poet, essayist, and translator and also author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. Born in Hungary in 1942, she moved to Czechoslovakia with her family after the war. In 1968, she emigrated to Canada, returning after one year. From 1986 to 1996, Haugová worked in the editorial section of the literary journal Romboid.

She is also highly regarded as a translator and has translated the poetry of, for instance, Sylvia Plath, Anne Saxton, Ingeborg Bachmann, Georg Trakl, and Paul Celan.

Olesya Khromeychuk (UKR) Olesya Khromeychuk is an author and historian. She is the director of the Ukrainian Institute in London. Her memoir A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister was published in 2021 by Ibidem Press.

She holds a PhD from University College London, and taught at University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King’s College London

Immerse yourself in their writing and find your favorite voices.

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TWO IN ONE – A REAL BOOKAZINE Our journal follows the principles of traditional magazine editing, but its appearance differs from the usual—it follows current trends while combining the newspaper experience with a book format.

Noam Chomsky Roxane Gay Tomáš Zmeškal Krisztina Tóth Valzhyna Mort János Háy

IMPACTS YOUR SOUL AND SENSES For the illustration of our journal, we always select from the works of contemporary artists that suggest and complement the theme of the given issue.

OUR ARTISTS PREJUDICE – Ádám Magyar, photographer The urban mass of people photographed from above symbolizes the facelessness of prejudice that cannot be connected to any section of society but is hidden in all of us.

CRAVE – István Nyári, pop-surrealist painter His paintings lead us to alternative realities where everything is possible and anything can come to life, where dreams and desires come true.

FAITH – Imre Bukta, graphic artist Faith interweaves our lives, we all need some form of it.

The pictures of Bukta show the many diverse faces of faith.

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