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About Marina Manoukian

Marina Manoukian is a Sarah Lawrence College graduate living in New York City. She spends most of her time reading and writing along with any variations of the two. You can find her at marinamanoukian.wordpress.com.

The Necessity of Tragedy—How What Goethe Played with is Still Entirely Relevant

Marina Manoukian

Faust (detail) - public domain

One may say that the benefit of tragedy is that one gets to witness man self-destruct without having to self-destruct on one’s own. Lessons learned without having to go through the actual act of the … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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