This essay marks the ending of the lavish storehouse of riches known as Berfrois…
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Read MoreBerfrois is an online literary-intellectual magazine. Berfrois is free of adverts thanks to our supporters. Editor Russell Bennetts founded Berfrois in 2009. His work is featured in The Bookseller, The Coming of the Toads and the Poetry Foundation. Associate Editors Medha Singh is an author, translator and editor based in New Delhi. Her books are…
Read MoreOur work began with a question: Why do we sacrifice the pleasures of human connection in order to claim our place as “one of the boys” or as a “good” woman?
Read MoreBerfrois: The Book is now available at all good bookshops and a certain online store.
Read MoreThe annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) convention is being held this coming week in my home town of Portland, Oregon.
Read MoreOur education system divided our nation, broadly along the lines of social class, choosing winners and losers at an early age…
Read MoreAs you can imagine, there was no need to edit much in his articles. But I would ask him if he was sure about something. Miłosz was very willing to write and work…
Read MoreWhat is it about the predicament of digital writing and reading that has so many literary provocateurs abuzz? “Mies van der Rohe said, ‘The least is the most.’..
Read MoreA good diarist, like the diaries they write, is always greater than the sum of their parts. That is to say, the dissection of a life day-to-day, looked at randomly, can seem uninteresting, lifeless, not worthwhile.
Read MoreWe’re co-hosting an opening night party for Colin Raff’s latest art installation. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreAs for our own free schools, there is mounting evidence that not only do many of these face as many, if not more, problems than the schools they were designed to replace
Read MoreX seems to want to be both the equivalent of The Giant and of Laura Palmer’s mother in Twin Peaks.
Read MoreThe extreme centre is a form of government that arose out of neoliberal economics and exists today in virtually the whole of Europe, North America and Australia.
Read MoreRussian poetry calls for humaneness, respect and love. Instead of this, Mr Putin brings war and impoverishment to the already poor people of Russia.
Read MorePoems by Russell Bennetts, Daniel Bosch, Andrea Cohen, Tom Daley, Katie Degentesh, Leontia Flynn, Benjamin Friedlander, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Kirsten Kaschock, Rauan Klassnik, Daisy Lafarge, DW Lichtenberg, Sharon Mesmer, Teresa K. Miller, K. Silem Mohammad, Jess Mynes, Lance Newman, R.M. O’Brien, Eirikur Örn Norŏdahl, Joseph Spece, Ken Taylor and Laura A. Warman. Version 1.0…
Read More1. How much of New York City has Duchamp walked? A walk is a way with one’s self – city or not – distance is innerness – (( duchamp knew this / as did few for he was one few of the many – )) duchamp = one of the very few who ever knew.
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