Short Stories Discovery Set

A novella is how an unfamiliar reader dips a toe into a writer's style.

Nos Republic works the same way. The house grew out of a blog and the writing never left it. Every release starts as a story, and the line rests on the idea that smell is the rawest and least filtered sensation available, and therefore the one that levels people from very different countries and cultures. Light from distant stars. Freedom in the green depths of a forest. Night air blended with champagne.

Nos Republic grew out of an eponymous blog, Ksenia Golovanova's first Telegram channel on the subject. The name comes from res publica, a public affair, and rests on the idea that smell is the rawest and least filtered sensation available, and therefore the one that levels people from very different countries and cultures.

The stories start in Golovanova's own culture and are built to carry past it: the longing for space, or a city seen at night from the top of a tall building. Seven releases now, each credited on its own page to the person who made it, Stéphanie Bakouche on four of them and Cristiano Canali, Valery Mikhalitsyn and Maria Golovina on one each. On several products Golovanova signs a material story herself and leaves the rest to the maker.