About

Berfrois is an online literary-intellectual magazine. Berfrois is free of adverts thanks to our supporters.

Editor

Russell Bennetts founded Berfrois in 2009. His work is featured in The Bookseller, The Coming of the Toads and the Poetry Foundation.

Associate Editors

Medha Singh is an author, translator and editor based in New Delhi. Her books are Ecdysis (Paperwall, 2017) and I Will Bring My Time: Love Letters by Sayed Haider Raza (Vadehra Art, 2020). Pitch essay ideas to Singh: medha [dot] singh [at] berfrois [dot] com

Calliope Michail is the author of a poetry chapbook, Along Mosaic Roads (the87press, 2018), with other work featuring online and in print. She is currently based in London. You can follow her on Twitter: @catonacanto.

Contributors

Berfrois has published Carol Gilligan, Jenny Diski, Tariq Ali, Robert Pinsky, Carl Phillips, Simon Critchley, Daniel Bosch and Legacy Russell, among others. Regular contributors include Jessica Sequeira, Douglas Penick, Susanna Crossman and Andre Gerard.

Mentions

Berfrois has been featured in the 3 Quarks Daily, Arts & Letters Daily, BBC, The Bookseller, CBC, The Express Tribune, Harvard University Press, Harvard Library, The Guardian, The Telegraph, the Morning Star, Prospect Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Flavorwire, The Christian Science Monitor, OUPblog, SOAS Research Online, Sky News, The Times, University of Helsinki Research Portal, Vox and more.

Praise for Berfrois

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– Flavorwire

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– Elif Batuman

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– Veronica Scott Esposito

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– Lucy Lawless