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An Interview with Photographer Jean-Marc Arakelian by Petia Hinkova Edited by: Lauren Sophie Kearney Jean-Marc Arakelian: I`m trying to catch the movement Photo: Jean-Marc Arakelian You say that in your photos you are trying to catch the movement. Can you explain that to us? To me aestheticism is movement, movement is harmony, and harmony is […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Donal Mahoney Photo: pancakeplan Forty years older than I, Charles, in his tweed cap, stands starched in gray chino and blue chambray. For more than a year his broad tie has let the same iridescent duck fly against a vermillion sky. Like a Vatican Guard he oversees the parking lot I cut through each morning […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

An Interview with Translator, Singer and Actress Angela Rodel by Lauren Sophie Kearney So, Angela, what brought you to Bulgaria? I heard the Mystery of Bulgarian Voices choral music when I was a student at Yale University – I had joined the Yale Slavic Chorus and absolutely fell in love with the sound of Bulgarian […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

An Interview with Vassilen Vasevski by Petia Hinkova Edited by: Lauren Sophie Kearney You define your style as “metaphysical romanticism”. Do you believe that this somehow reflects the time we live in? I have invented this term myself as an attempt to name the painting style I have been developing. But I also admit there […]

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The epicenter of the global animal liberation and rights dialogue this year was at Canisius College, Buffalo, where the eleventh Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies took place between March 2nd and 4th. Three stimulating days of presentations, workshops, stalls and exhibitions brought together activists, scholars, students and community members from several continents […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Valentin Ivanov Photo: Monroe This article originally appeared on Valentin Ivanov’s bilingual blog and The World SF Blog. I honestly admit it – this post was timed to take advantage of the announcement of the anthology “Diamonds in the Sky”, to try reaching more English-speaking readers, because the SF of my country is confined to […]

Photo: Ivo Oreshkov

Prof. Dr. Milena Kirova Translated by: Ralitsa Muharska Photo: Fran Tapia Ads are among the most visible acquisitions of public life in Bulgaria after 1989. They are “like air and water” to the “democratic” Bulgarian: they mostly go unnoticed, but are experienced as an indispensable part of our social habitus. Ads are always-present – all […]

Don’t Take the Bridge A new play for three characters and a parrot By Mayia Pramatarova Directed by Stavri Karamfilov Music by Gheorghi Arnaoudov Interactive media by Vladimir Gusev English translation by Assya Nick Cast: Hristina Hristova, Jo Jo Hristova, Albena Kervanbashieva, Vanina Kondova, Sergey Nagorny, Tony Naumovski*, Evgeniya Radilova* *Actors appearing courtesy of AEA, […]

Vladimir Zarev. Worlds. Sofia: Five Plus, 2006 Translated by Zlatko Anguelov and Elizabeth Frank Continued from: “Worlds”, Excerpt I Photo: drvglvd1 3. [The love encounter between Diana and Samuel takes place in a typical Balkan setting, far away from the world, amidst gunshots, self-aggrandizing talk, madness, and mysticism. It is the plot’s culmination where two […]

Lauren Sophie Kearney You may not believe me when I say that I feel more Bulgarian than English. But it’s true, from the moment I set foot in Bulgaria I was instantly drawn to it; as if it was home…the home I had been searching for my entire life. England had never been a place […]

An Interview with Artist Jan Kaláb by Elena Kapitanova How does it feel to leave a mark in so many different places where you work? I like that feeling of leaving somewhere and knowing that a little part of me stays there. Because as soon as I return, I go to see if my mark […]

Sheri L. Wright Photo: “Who Are You?” by Sheri L. Wright He set Beargrass Creek in flames with stolen whiskey, something about fire-water, making a point, daring anyone to try and drink it now, but all he got was six months in jail for vandalizing public property. He told the judge that was the funniest […]