Explore our sections.

Time Out of Mind (creative short stories)

Note Senza Testo (poetry and fragments of thoughts)

A Mano Libera (drawings, pictures, videos)

Lessico Famigliare (publishing and literary mementos)

Fuori Modem (essays, conversations)

Hook is a literary magazine in Italian, English (and many other languages in the spirit of Elias Canetti and a multilingual mind).

Curated by Caterina Orsenigo and Benedetta Grasso.

It’s a collection of short stories, fragments of words and ideas. A hook is a great way to start a story, a moment that keeps you interested, a catchy tune that doesn’t leave you alone, just like great writing, interesting thoughts or visuals. Hook is also a nod to pirates, nationless, stateless, at home only in the sea, grenzgaenger of the world, crossers of borders: they have heard and spoken every language known to man, they travel, exchange and change, they are free, enthusiastic, sometimes cruel, lawless, always on the edge.

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Di Benedetta Grasso e Caterina Orsenigo

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by Natalya Cohen

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A Celebration and a recap of our website’s mission and publications in 2020/2021

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Di Saverio Raimondo

Big announcement for our Hook co-editor Caterina Orsenigo . Her first book “Con tutti i mezzi necessari - viaggio in transiberiana” is coming out on October 6th! (Prospero editore ) The illustrations by Greta Plaitano accompany the intertwined narrative essays. Based on notes, conversations, reflections and adventures during a real journey let the sound of the train hum you to sleep and the borders dissipate in the distance.