Stimulus: The 15th Century Voynich Manuscript.
Issue 21 · July 2020
Mystery and the V. Mss.
Bless the hive that cannot be pried that skep of clay that denies every Pandora her urge so to teach us to accept mys...
Trumping Machiavelli
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” —Eric Hoffer Many...
Thirst & Vigil
Thirst Sa n’áit n’ard na gaoithe In the place of the high winds. Here is the caught, the girdled, and ex...
Poetics of Fragmentation
The readers of Cavafy were limited to the select group who received his poems, privately printed on broadsheets or bo...
Voynich
You emerge out of your beastiary Hairless, With eyes the same unsettled blue as sea water. Here is the new world. You...
There Are Two Suns
There are two suns that rise every morning One scorching red and the other its reflection Skirting and hiding behind ...
Snow Globes
Lady Liberty, patron of my souvenirs, rules the skyline of Manhattan, raising high her weightless lamp. I plan to agi...
The Bowl & Nightshade
The Bowl To old men who stumble onto the fiery plain pity be given. Hold out your bowl here’s lettuce a radi...
Regrown from the Pleistocene
The petals are much narrower, more splayed, and yet they look as fresh as modern campion, as clean. The thirty-two ...
Ghosts and Landscapes
Bearing no resemblance to the world that I bear, there’s a world. beyondlessness: a state of grace What ghosts and ...
Chapter Thirty-One Or The Lost Chapter
What They Saw In Syria Candide, Cunégonde and their companions soon realised that their garden and their labour woul...
The Street of Crocodiles, The Cinnamon Shops
Bruno Schulz, an art teacher and painter in Drogobych, Poland, scribed three literary works of art and then was shot ...
Inheritance
Last fall, my parents had the locust tree cut down in the back yard. My brother, now in his thirties, had brought it ...
Perception & Leaves
Perception Can we give up our eyes and ears, mouth, nose, and skin, and find new ones, never worn; then lie in...
Ghost songs
Cities hoard their dead, layers of clay and memory, paving stones and fossilized teeth Streets echo their winding lam...
The Art of Punctuation
We punctuate a life, as we punctuate a story, or a poem. It’s the art of cutting, pacing, harnessing, detaching br...
LPB Competition 2020 ·
Antimatter
The stimulus for our inaugural competition is the mindmap created by our editorial team on the notion of ‘antimatter’. The winning entries will be published in a special issue on October 7th, 2020.
The Thread
The Thread is LPB’‘s essayistic column, where writers are given the liberty to explore their ideas over a series of articles. Departing from the stimulus format of our monthly issues, ‘threads’ of articles in this column are woven together either thematically or stylistically.
Recent Articles
A Week as Umberto Eco’s Model Reader
I became Umberto Eco’s Model Reader for a week. This was neither an easy decision, nor a simple task. For context, ...
The Waltz of Missing Words
In France, every edition of the Petit Larousse dictionary removes around five hundred words. Put differently, since L...
The Rain
The damage was phenomenal. At the time of the explosion, I was violently propelled to the ground, unable to move. All...
The Sea
Under her bare feet, the burning pebbles drew a road leading to the shore. The slightly turbulent waves shimmered in ...
The Wind
His gaze was turned towards the door. He was concentrating on the peeling paint and the rusty lock, trying to escape ...
Recent Articles
Song: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
from An Evening’s Love Calm was the even, and clear was the sky, And the new budding flowers did spring, When a...
Choju Jinbutsu Giga – Encounter
The first Marubeni Group corporate image animation produced by Studio Ghibli, Inc. Adopting the motif of...
Stay Home and Keep on Dancing
A video performance by the renowned dance group 'Nederlands Dans Theatre' (NDT). Concept Video & Edit:...
What Man Thou Art
Angelo: Admit no other way to save his life— As I subscribe not that, nor any other— But, in the loss of questio...
Thalassography
Paintings inspired by the sea
...Special Issue · Staying at Home
In light of the recent global crisis, as well as the lockdown of multiple countries around the world, we have decided to publish a selection of our favourite writers, artists and musicians, hoping that they provide the same solace to you, as they do to us.
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