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Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions...
Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...
Five Poems: By Miriam Sagan
1. Advent
let’s ask ourselves
what is possible—
orange berries
clinging to the thorns
the moon wanes
but like love
replenishes
if only a sliver remains
cattle in the dark field
angels on the...
The Small-Town Sea – (An excerpt from the novel) By Anees...
Kindly join us for the Big Eid feast, Mr Unwin. Please be seated on the fictitious chair I have dragged out for you. Here...
Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions – By Jim...
Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Look Through the Lenses of Zen Buddhism and...
In his poem Can Palat W.S. Merwin reminisces about an abandoned, hillside farmstead he encountered as a young man. On a terrace he finds
an...
When Earth and Sky Intermingle : Science and Poetry – By Michael G. Smith
Poetry has never revealed its full face to anyone. Its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It defies any attempt at a...
Notes on Conceptual Fiction – By Ted Gioia
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Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic? After all, there are no Newtonian laws in stories—an...
Aura – ( A Novel by Carlos Fuentes ) By Ted Gioia
Felipe Montero sits reading a newspaper in a seedy café, when he is startled by a classified ad. The solicitation seems written with him...
No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
Review by Lynn Alexander
When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...
Blossoms of Decay – Gary Beck
By Rajesh Subramanian
Evil has been an inescapable part of the human environment since time immemorial. Whether it originates from the Satan or otherwise, its...
Speaking in tongues: Alvin Pang’s poetry – By Alfred A. Yuson
Our good buddy Alvin Pang of Singapore has just authored a new poetry collection: What Happened: Poems 1997 – 2017, edited and with a...
Pakistan gave my roots and London, the wings to fly- Sabyn Javeri
By Rajesh Subramanian
Dr. Sabyn Javeri is an Assistant Professor at the Arzu center for Literature and Languages at Habib University. She has a Masters...
Always on Writer’s Side : Kanishka Gupta
By Rajesh Subramanian
In 2009, Kanishka Gupta was the youngest author on the long-list of the Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel History Of...
Multiple facets of Nigerian Literature – An interview with Ikeogu Oke
By Rajesh Subramanian
Ikeogu Oke is one of the best known faces of contemporary Nigerian and African literary world. He won the Nigeria LNG's prestigious...
Magical Realism or Realism ? – Isabel Allende
Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel, The House of the Spirits, was published in 1982. In addition to...
