It is a moment, a nervous state, that can be encountered more and more often in the most harmless situations in my beloved homeland for some time now. Moments in which life partners drop like flies. And in which after forty years of living together, wives destroy their men and vice versa because of an ill-placed sentence or word that they have flung from the tip of their tongue. Or because of cold goulash with potatoes and seasoned with paprika. In this way, an arm is extended from the official...

Transfeminism occupies the border space, which is the position of those for whom the binary categories man/woman are too tight and at the same time stresses the fact that our common starting points of oppression remain capitalism and the heteropatriarchate. The biological principle and ontological difference are called into question through positions that deconstruct the concept of "woman" and "man" to the benefit of the political thought of differential differences, undisciplined sexual,...

Perhaps the most important thing I learned from Kiš is the responsibility to the time and society in which I live. That is, his ethics and his morally uncorrupted stance. Everything else was less important. The style, metaphorical language and story line, all these are just patterns on the covers of encyclopaedia of decay that we will never finish.

When some years ago, members of an extreme right-wing group from Debrecen carried out an armed hunt for citizens of Roma origin; and even then focussing on the poorest and most dejected. They burnt down their houses on the brink of the village, shooting those who wanted to save themselves from the fire. The police could not find the perpetrators. (...) Police officers that came to inspect the scene did not notice the petrol can at the remains of a burnt down house. They also did not notice a...

"Only half a year has passed since the Croatian media jealously reported that the Slovenian Parliament - with a tight vote but still - voted in favour of the "notorious" Families Act, according to which a male or female partner in a same sex relationship can adopt the child of his or her partner. It was reported then, among other things, that Slovenian legislature is "miles" ahead of Croatian and that Croatia, where a family is only perceived as the legally approved union of man, woman and...

"In times when great social changes occurred and changes to the system of values – in critical times and times of crisis, which there have been many of from the dawn of Christianity to the present – fear overarched and enveloped a large number of people. It grew into a beast.

This Central European style is based on the literary tradition as a sprout of erudition, the initiation of various cultures and languages, and peculiar Central European melancholy, mostly described by László Végel. What the mentioned writers achieved in prose, Ottó Tolnai did in poetry. Although he was a successful prosiest and playwright, an art critic and essayist, his poetry nowadays represents the top of Hungarian language.

Oh, our so-called transition countries of national traditions of local medieval princes. The majority of them are (post)war smugglers and suppliers who are usually big homophobes and nationalists: they want to show their human face now and then. This is when they look the most grotesque. Tycoons’ face is actually the face of a Father who wants to give his children what their Mother-Country failed to give but was primarily her job: to protect her poorest and the most endangered children. No one...

Until the mid nineteen eighties, everyone could speak openly about marijuana. In this way, the greatest number of negative opinions about the use of marijuana for any purposes were presented (and are still being presented) by people who have never even tried it. But they had a firm and unalterable attitude to it. In this group of people belong those who loudly demanded the prohibition of this plant only to avert attention from their own problems.