literature | Lubomira Kourteva

The Purple Dress

The Purple Dress

I have a box on my book shelf. A handwoven bamboo box; in it, twenty seven colours. Nail polishes. I’ve collected them for years. I’ve always loved doing my nails, and I’ve never been to a manicurist in my life. It gives me great pleasure to do my...

The Real Love Story That Inspired Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”

The Real Love Story That Inspired Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”

“Some day—Scott—some day. Perhaps in a year—two—three—We’ll have that perfect hour! I want it—and so we’ll have it! It may be different then but after a while we would be brought back to the way I feel now…” —Ginevra King, Letter to F....

The Cultural Evolution of Fairytales: Their Importance for Social Issues, Wellbeing and Preserving Generations

The Cultural Evolution of Fairytales: Their Importance for Social Issues, Wellbeing and Preserving Generations

“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales, for our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run about in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first hear them is not of surprise but of recognition. Things long...

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