Collected Works in Contemporary Prose and Art
Author: Dritan Kiçi
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The Paintings of Ximena Maldonado Sánchez. Hot!
The desert in Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s paintings is not a place but a pulsing, radioactive body remembering heat, exile, and hallucination.
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Notes From the Isle Seat
A raw meditation on grief, voice, and the brutal clarity that follows loss—urging writers to abandon polish and write with unflinching truth.
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Ghayath Almadhoun: Europe, we love your art and hate your bombs
A furious, unrelenting poetry of rupture—Almadhoun’s verses indict, mourn, and resist with devastating force.
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Eurovision: Where Nations Compete for the Right to Be Confused
Eurovision is what happens when musical theater and international diplomacy get drunk at the same wedding—messy, performative, and dazzlingly absurd.
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The Three Xs of a Great Story: Extraordinary, Exclusive, Extendable
Three Xs Framework—Extraordinary, Exclusive, and Extendable. A practical method for evaluating why some stories endure in cultural memory, while others, no matter how lyrical, fade fast.
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Why the Green Transition Is Already Lost
A searing critique of the Green Transition’s failure—not in policy, but in metaphor, language, and imagination.