Cityscape. Photograph Phil Hall by Amal Chatterjee When I was a child, I dreamed of aeroplanes, great silver birds crossing continents and oceans, I watched their thin vapour trails draw and spread as they made their way from distant cities to others yet more distant. But now the novelty has…
Category: Literature
Football
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Stories of Football and Madness / Cuentos de Fútbol y Locura
In the Maracana Photo by Andre Dantas on Pexels.com by Ulises Paniagua Down the Right Wing The poor child (…) finds in football the possibility of social ascent, having no toy but the ball: the ball is the only magic wand he can believe in.Eduardo Galeano He received the ball…
Angelo
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Con Rider on Shakespeare’s Play, Measure for Measure
Isabella and Angelo (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2). Illustration James Fittler, engraving William Hamilton 1994, Public Domain This is perhaps the closest Shakespeare comes to presenting a dogma: “He who the sword of heaven would bear… should be as holy as severe.” Interviewed by Phil Hall Con…
AI
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DUMAH
Screenshot from Yogesh Patel’s new poetry film, Dumah The Demands of the Art of Making a Poetry Film Using AI by Yogesh Patel “Thunderbirds are go,” I command myself when the creative current hits. It’s an almost primeval surge—the familiar, heady rush of a launch sequence. Just like the nostalgic…
Garry O'Connor
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The Butcher of Poland
by Garry O’Connor Condemned to death and hanged in 1947, Hans Frank’s public repentance was unique among the leading Nazi criminals tried at Nuremberg. One psychiatrist pointed out Frank’s ‘beatific tranquillity merely hid his own tensions’. But what of such carefully acted out piety? Didn’t this hastily cultivated yet forceful…
1960s
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May Uprising, Paris, 1968
by Garry O’Connor ‘The past is bourgeois propaganda,’ booms a deep voice in French from the stage of Paris’s Odéon Theatre. I am participating after a fashion in the May uprising of 1968. I have lived for some months in a tiny maid’s room, eight flights up on the Île…
Harry Greenberg
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About Harry
By Peter Cowlam I first met Harry at the back end of the ’90s, almost a decade after I had left London but had kept my friendships there. At that time he was still living in his flat near Highgate, where I dropped in as often as I could. Almost…
Catalina Pérez Correa
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Literature and Cinema in the Face of the Stigma of the Criminal
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) Screenshot Public Domain by Ulises Paniagua One of the films that has had the greatest impact on me, both as a person and as a cinephile, is the one made by François Truffaut in 1959 under the title “The 400 Blows” (Les Quatre Cents Coups)….
Canada
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The Broken Banker
Man in a Blue Suit, Photo by Nicola Barts Pexels by Charles Dean For me, writing is therapy. It’s comfort. Freedom. I can write about anything—everything. I can create, destroy, rebuild. I can make my characters laugh, cry, dream. It’s something I can’t always do in real life. Writing is…
Amal Chatterjee
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Hengshan Park
by Amal Chatterjee The windows shudder as another train roars past. Through the grey-streaked glass, he sees the city growing, cranes yellow against the sky, towering over the already giant blocks that have risen while he’s been at his desk. Or so it feels, each day stepping out into a…
Bereavement
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Ordinary Pain
Photo by Vijay Sadasivani, Pexels by Lucy Hall It had been over a year. That was what James was thinking as he wound his way through the plastic bollards. He ignored the street worker who was yelling at him, one hand on his head and the other outstretched, fingers spread…
Amal Chatterjee
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The Inspection
photo by Photo by Rene Terp by Amal Chatterjee The coffee, he thinks, ought to be warmer. On a scale, he prefers closer to hot than to body temperature. And a little more sugar, half a teaspoon more, that’d do the trick. ‘…it’s a privilege,’ the Headmaster is saying. He…
Captcha This!
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Excerpt: Captcha This!
Photo by Regan Dsouza, Pexels by J.W. Wood . Martin began to gain power. And power, as we all know, is the greatest narcotic – or hallucinogen. For instance, the high-powered Simon Tickley invited him to a shooting weekend. This consisted of people dressing up in clothes from the nineteenth…
Avenida Madero
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Ulysses in the City
Fotografías de la Ciudad de México desde el aire, Gobierno de Mexico Mexico City is open beauty, the heart that rests on a lake by Ulises Paniagua This city, Mexico City, is a palimpsest. City upon city, city of cities. It has been woven from layers invisible to the passage…
AI
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AI JAMES
Ars Notoria introduces its new literary chatbot Perhaps “proud” is not the right word, but we at Ars Notoria might be proud (we think) to announce the introduction of an AI-generated Avatar designed to make us more money than the billionaires we despise. We’ve given it the title of “Satire and…
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