Johannes Lichtman

Johannes Lichtman’s fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Sun, American Short Fiction, and Carolina Quarterly. He lives in Malmö, Sweden, and can be found online at blingtheory.net.

To Forget History

It would be easy to interpret Kundera’s sympathy for those who want to rewrite their pasts as the author’s hidden desire to forget something shameful from his own past....

JOHANNES LICHTMAN

FICTION

Psych, Lies, and Audiotape: The Tarnished Legacy of the Milgram Shock Experiments

Did a scientist famous for establishing patterns of human obedience via electric shocks lie about his research?...

JOHANNES LICHTMAN

Subverting Our Expectations: The State of the Short Story

AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW, it’s not easy to make money writing. Young writers read of a mythical past when aspiring authors could work for “newspapers” in exotic locales like Kansas City, but even if there is still ...

JOHANNES LICHTMAN