About

molossus, n.

1. Prosody. A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables.

2. A Molossian dog.

3. An online broadside of world literature.

Molossus is an online broadside of world literature. We publish original interviews, reviews, & essays as dispatches from world literature. We publish interviews & reviews on a weekly basis, with a commitment to contributing toward the transatlantic and English-language diaspora dialogue.We publish BLINKBLINK, our mini-features on books, links, and news from the present and recent past, daily. We are especially keen to review literature in translation & book arts editions of contemporary literature.

The molossus is a metrical foot of three consecutive stressed syllables. Like our namesake foot, the editors of Molossus intend for its content to maintain its forcefulness & power from beginning to end. The dogs termed molossus did not end strong—they are now extinct—but some scholars (i.e. Wikipedia) contend that they were used to fight lions, tigers, elephants, & men in battle. We prefer ideas to tigers.