Our house organ, the Notarikon, will begin publication late in 2026. A print quarterly of arts and letters, it will contain fiction, poetry and criticism. The first issue will include a series of essays on Portuguese and European literature by Fernando Pessoa, originally published in 1912 and never before translated into English, as well the opening chapters of In The Flat World, a novel by the art historian Thomas Brown.

The translation from the Yiddish of The Critic, a vignette by Avrom Reisen, serves as a thematic preface. Reisen's tale is the internal monologue of a theater critic whose sycophantic habits backfire; self-preservation forces him to resurrect traces of sincerity from the graveyard of his unconscious. The story is the first offering of a project to translate Reisen's fictional oeuvre.

In tribute to Adam Mickiewicz's aborted daily, La Tribune des Peuples, an English edition of the poet's lectures on Slavic literature, delivered in Paris in the 1840's, is in development and will debut in our second issue. Mickiewicz's Tribune and its more respectable cousin, the Buloz-era Revue des Deux Mondes, predate the cinema and all but the earliest stages of photography, yet serve as a model for our quarterly, which is not confined to promotional film matter or seduced by the temptations of topical specialization, partisan allegiance or other strategies of refuge.