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Meditations
A generational meditation on memory, identity, and affirmation through intimate portraits of self, mother, and a fading patriarch.
Collected Works in Contemporary Prose and Art
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On Social Media, or Why I Don’t Want to Publish Ghosts
A wake-up call to writers: don’t just write—show up, stand by your work, and stop hiding behind mystique.
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Paper houses
“Every time they moved, it became easier… to unfold the carefully creased seams and bend them back together, to reassemble their lives into something that appeared from the outside, whole.”
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Songs of Brel
A bittersweet voyage through longing, loss, and friendship—Herman’s luminous translations of Brel’s songs cast lyrical shadows on life’s fragile dreams.
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Ghost at the edge of the city
“We’re an ill-formed congregation of ghosts now and maybe always, with one simple goal: remember the way home and how it felt to have definable form instead of living each…
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On Writing an Author’s Bio
“We all read and are inspired — some with books, others with porn. It doesn’t make us special.”
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On the Kind of Poetry I Love
“What I want to publish has teeth. It cuts clean and close. It opens a wound and refuses to cauterize it.”
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Deviant Morality & NaNoWriMo
“Art is inherently human… To assume their life’s work should be abused for the sake of evolution is to discredit the sacrifices they made to fulfill those dreams.”
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Absence Music
A tender meditation on loss and longing, where music fades in the absence of love.
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Extraordinary
“Ordinary gets you up and breakfasting, it carries you through the hard choices, and drops you like river gravel after the flood, shining in the sun”
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TBR Spring 25 is Here
We are bored. Bored of mainstream narratives, of ceaseless mumbling, of effortlessly click-and-publish words. Bored of opinion-sharing and provocation, of judgment without curiosity. And we are bored of the violence…
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Daphne’s Daughter
Her metamorphosis quickened in my teenage years and when I turned eighteen, I walked into the kitchen and found her in front of the fridge with a pen balanced between…
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Ash Psalms
Power is not in melted Buicks, not in making angels cower and sing your name in fear. There is no godhood for you, who have only sealed your name in…
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Maria Patakia: The Temporariness of Beauty, Love, and Existence
Maria Patakia is a multidimensional personality, She intertwines poetry, theatre, and cinema with her profession as a lawyer at the European Commission. She is the author of four poetry volumes…
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The Unknown Soldier – 1781
An Unknown Soldier of 1781 bears witness to the brutal legacy of American wars, from Yorktown to January 6th, tracing the fragile arc of democracy.
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Surviving the Blade: An In-Depth Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife: A Memoir
Read our in-depth review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife: A Memoir, exploring his harrowing near-death experience, the aftermath, and his journey of recovery. Discover insights into Rushdie’s resilience, literary prowess, and…