Welcome to Public Republic!
Dear friends, We are now “officially” starting our Public Republic project in English! Encouraged by the exciting success of the journal in Bulgaria (www.public-republic.com) and by the enthusiasm of...
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A Dead Doe in the Wild
Unknown Author, c. 600BC Photo: I’mClaude a dead doe in the wild shrouded in white reeds there is a girl, spring-longing a gentleman to seduce her shrubs are in the forest a dead doe in the wild wrap...
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New Year quotations
Photo: 28481088@N00 Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to...
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Martenitsa
Valentin Krustev Photo: Mariana Velichkova This crimson tassel stands for blood— May yours gallop safe and sound! The threads of white are blinks of good that everyone can find around. Just wear it...
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Let’s listen to Matt Charles…
Ludmila Yordanova Matt Charles This is a true story. A story indeed. Almost a saga. It has a protagonist – the singer and composer Matt Charles. It also has the circumstances required for the story to...
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The Week… Light with Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński, 1984 I am obsessed with the process of creation. In my paintings I never use any “means”. I paint them completely naively, just as I would be taking photos of my own dreams....
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The Week… Double vision with Michael Ondaatje
Photo: piermario A novel is a mirror walking down a road. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom,...
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The Lighting Technicians
Kristin Dimitrova Photo: calliope Theodor Bogdanov was powdering his face. “Sometimes I think he is following me. No, I’m sure he follows me. Hiding in the doorway of the house across the street,...
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The Week… Raindrops with Susan Sontag
Photo: beamillion Sanity is a cozy lie. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Photo: mark217 I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. The likelihood that your acts of resistance...
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The Week… The Invisible with Rumi
Photo: Mikko Luntiala Longing is the core of mystery Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desire must be disciplined, And what you want to happen In time,...
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The Natural Order of Things
Kevin P. Keating The Natural Order of Things, comprised of 15 interconnected stories, is properly thought of as a novel in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio or John Steinbeck’s The...
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