A brief explanation.
Or its opposite.
The Hippo is an often-satirical magazine exploring the ever-increasing waves of modernity through humor, paradox and oddity.
Our praxis puts the novel beside the essay, anthropology beside criticism, and a perfectly reasonable observation beside something that may take several readings to become less clear.
Sometimes too vague. Sometimes excessively detailed. We are interested in what happens when writing exceeds its instructions: when a story starts arguing, an argument wanders off, or a footnote develops ambitions.
Difficulty can be a pleasure, not an entrance requirement. Bring your curiosity; no theoretical credentials are necessary. We want to publish writing, find readers and encourage new and younger writers to join the conversation.
Confused?
Good company, at least.
The reading matter
Hippo-Launch
Foreword from the editor Professor Michael Armadillo To the reader, the writer and those in the Hippo-commune It is no secret that we live in the age of the individual, this is a magazine aimed at the masses via individualistic means. What better format is there, than to thrash it out online, with a small…
The reader may now interrupt.
Have a question, an objection or the beginnings of a piece? We would like to hear from you. New and younger writers are welcome; a fully formed literary persona is optional.