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Andrew Lang, The Master of Fairyland
By Kenny Chumbley
In the late 19th century, fairy tales had fallen out of favor with the general public; some educationalists even attacked them as...
The Barren Womb – A poem by Rimli Bhattacharya
Three corpses lay in front of the mother,
Tiny ones, they are lifeless,
Once upon a time each one spoke to her,
Now speaks...
Stren – By R. Sebastian Bennett
Tomato George drove us up toward the mesa in his vegetable truck. He knew of a pond out behind old...
Andrew Lang, The Master of Fairyland
By Kenny Chumbley
In the late 19th century, fairy tales had fallen out of favor with the general public; some educationalists even attacked them as...
J. M. Barrie and The Pan
By Kenny Chumbley
“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all...
H. Rider Haggard: Northern Lights and Valkyries
By Kenny Chumbley
Before Indiana Jones, there was Allan Quatermain; before The Last Jedi, there was King Solomon’s Mines;and before the 1958 swashbuckler, The Vikings,...
The Eight Memes of the Postmodern Mystery – By Ted Gioia
What do postmodern writers have against the mystery novel? For reasons that perhaps only a Lacan or Derrida could deconstruct, they have turned to it again...
XXL – By Aditya Shankar
Review by Rajesh Subramanian
Aditya Shankar has been trying to set a unique poetic path for himself, with an unusual language structure, metaphoric themes and...
‘Landscape Painted with Tea’ as an Ecological Novel – By Jasmina Mihajlovic
"Suddenly I freeze. I sense, I clearly sense, somebody watching me. Somebody's eyes are fixed upon me. And then I realize that staring out...
In my Patina Cup- By Sadia Khan
Book Review by Shazia Batool Naqvi
The metaphorical Title of this volume: “In my Patina Cup” brought to mind the gem words of Muriel Rukeyser(1):...
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...
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...
I ordered a Short Story from Milorad Pavic – An Interview with Jasmina Mihajlovic
Interviewed by Rajesh Subramanian
Could you share some of your most memorable experiences with your late husband, Milorad Pavic, as a literary co-traveler?
Our literary cooperation...
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...
