Isolarii #15
72 x 106 mm (tiny!), 156 pages
Bi-monthly
First published in 2020
Editors: Sebastian Clark and Luca Mantero
Cover by: Alaska Alaska
‘Motherdying’
A series by Common Era, the fifteenth edition of the diminutive isolarii (meaning ‘island texts’) arrives in dark cocoa, adorned with the press’s signature font in blue. Featuring ‘Motherdying’—Michael Lentz’s Ingeborg Bachman Prize-winning novella, exploring the myriad of absurd ways people cope with the grief of losing a mother. Through fragmented prose and non-linear memories, ‘Motherdying’ distils the scattered and disorienting nature of grief into language.
On the Journal:
It’s this one thing (on Isolarii #5):
‘Each edition of the tiniest publication on magCulture’s shelves, isolarii, is by its very nature a (miniaturised, printed) cousin of the ‘It’s this one thing’ column. Published once every two months, the series is ‘a world of many worlds’ where, with each new addition, a different niche subject is rather beautifully and deftly explored...’
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