Language is born from our passions and longings. What begins as a groan becomes prose, or prayer. We are beings constantly in translation, constantly translating. We are beings who revel in our humanness yet yearn to transcend our humanness. Call it spirituality, mystery, or intuition, we desire to know the unknowable. Slant publishes literary fiction expressing this infusion of mystery in our daily experience. Compelled by characters of dimensionality, textured prose, and innovative plot, we are compelled by writing that most mirrors what it means to be human: the everyday confluence of human passion and the sacred.
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A little more than two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Virgil wrote his Georgics, a long poetic sequence about agriculture, suffused with profound reflections on the relationship between humanity,...
For a brief time in mid-nineteenth century Oneida, New York, two of the most eccentric and fascinating figures in American history crossed paths when troubled soul and soon-to-be presidential assassin...
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From popes to television personalities to high school students, everyone who encountered Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete knew there was no one like him. He could engage you with a joke about a New Yorker...
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In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cote d'Azur. They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment...
From acclaimed crime novelist Gar Anthony Haywood comes a riveting tale unlike any he's told before . . . Diane Edwards has spent the last eight months praying for a miracle after losing her son Adrian...
"Love took the words right out of my mouth." So begins the first line of Christopher Jane Corkery's poignant and unforgettable new collection of poems. Throughout the work these two themes--the power...
If the short story collections of John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor had a love child, it would be The Beasts of Belladonna. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Gilbert Allen's collection of fifteen...
In the title poem of Into the New World Robert Schultz takes the reader on a walk around the World Trade Center site shortly after its destruction. In response to this event, the book ranges through...
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Language is born from our passions and longings. What begins as a groan becomes prose, or prayer. We are beings constantly in translation, constantly translating. We are beings who revel in our humanness yet yearn to transcend our humanness. Call it spirituality, mystery, or intuition, we desire to know the unknowable. Slant publishes literary fiction expressing this infusion of mystery in our daily experience. Compelled by characters of dimensionality, textured prose, and innovative plot, we are compelled by writing that most mirrors what it means to be human: the everyday confluence of human passion and the sacred.
