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When I entered the office this morning I discovered, casually sat on my desk, a book with an intriguing title “The Milan Review on Ghosts” and I found myself turning the pages immediately.

On closer inspection this ‘book’ is actually a magazine by The Milan Review, an independent publishing house nestled within Milan’s bustling streets, and this is the first issue of a bi-yearly (give or take a month or two) literary project. By ‘bi-yearly ‘ I mean released to coincide with the Spring/Summer and the Autumn/Winter periods.

The first issue entertains the subject of ghosts… and not the romantic variety portrayed by Mr. Swazye. We are talking demons. But open your mind to the concept of ghosts you'll realise that it is not just regarding the world of spirits and those past but also things that may or may not exist and returning memories and haunting images. The Milan Review searched the literary world to provide the reader with an impressive list of authors (Jonathon Keats and Glen Hirschberg are present) that have pondered upon these ideas.

This issue is also a collaboration with artists Matt Furie and Masion Du Crac who have provided the artwork for the contents, cover and flyleaf of the book. Furie has designed the monster heads at the end of each story and also the ‘charming’ faces that are sandwich in the flyleaf behind each cover which, are also his work. Du Crac, however, has provided the paintings that are used to introduce each of the author’s stories. These paintings were created with only the name of the author and the title of the story as inspiration and so it allows you, the reader, to see if images resonate or not.

This literary read is not only going to impress the readers with the choice of authors and artists, no, it is also going to impress with every consecutive release for The Milan Review team promise strong themes that will be bound up in forms differing to the current ‘book’ issue. I, for one, am excited by this promise as the next issue is expected to be about the Universe.  If you consider yourself to be an intellect or feel that your life is missing a certain ‘je nais sais quio’ then this debut from The Milan Review is truly worth the investment. 

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 Text by: Ben Taylor 

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