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Hungary

A pair of wire-rimmed glasses with a crack in one lens lying on a piece of striped fabric

Photo by Jorien Loman on Unsplash

Éva Popa

By Edina Szvoren

Rather audaciously, given her age, she wore her hair in a buzz cut on the sides and in the back.

Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist

The Watchlist: October 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends noteworthy new books in translation from Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Colombia, South Korea, and Norway.

Peripatetics: The Essays of Jazmina Barrera, Karen Villeda, and Mariana Oliver

By Charlotte Whittle

These are essays with a roving gaze whose authors travel through geographic and intellectual spaces with the same ease with which we used to walk around in New York.

Visegrád

By Karen Villeda

Women were confined to reading prayer books and religious hymns. And they wrote in the margins. Centuries went by. Those marginalia are, in fact, the books I need to read.

Translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle

Road Stories: International Writing on Travel

By Susan Harris

Some of the writers here document their own trips, while others invent characters and send them on the road.

Open to Disagreement: Six Contemporary Hungarian Women Writers

By Erika Mihálycsa

An important slice of recent Hungarian writing is indebted to the literature of the 1980s and ’90s that subverts the ideological remainders entrenched in language.

Lionel Messi kicking a ball

Jimmy Baikovicius from Montevideo, Uruguay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Woman Striker Has Killer Left Foot

By Réka Mán-Várhegyi

One sweltering summer morning, I wake up to find I’m Lionel Messi.

Translated from Hungarian by Owen Good

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Frau Röntgen’s Hand

By Zsófia Bán

Oh God. The woman has vaporized.

Translated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker

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Moonlight Faces

it can end whenever, wherever.

Translated from Hungarian by Kinga Tóth & Owen Good

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The Tongue’s Story

By Krisztina Tóth

It’s because we don’t speak their language. That’s why they’re defiling our food.

Translated from Hungarian by Owen Good

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That Little Strip of Sunshine

By Zsuzsa Selyem

By the time I’d answered all his questions I recognized him: János Hell.

Translated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker & Erika Mihálycsa

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Working Name: Person

By Edina Szvoren

My parents know more about the Qahatika Indians than about my son.

Translated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker

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The Magazine as Manifesto

By Meghan Forbes

The artistic production of a group of leftist artists, poets, and editors in Central Europe in the interwar period reflects an optimism for a “new Europe.”

Metropolis Dynamics

By Lászlo Moholy-Nagy

This marks the first time that the Hungarian version of “Metropolis Dynamics” has been translated with its graphic layout and original linocuts intact.

Translated from Hungarian by Irina Denischenko & Bradley Gorski

From “El último lobo”

By László Krasznahorkai

He was doing nothing, not a damn thing, simply drifting, spending hours sitting in the Sparschwein with his first glass of Sternburg at his side [ . . . ]

Translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes

Haul

By György Dragomán

The bears are tame, I broke them in myself.

Translated from Hungarian by Paul Olchváry