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Existential Threat : Poems by Thomas Piekarski
Existential Threat
How do we expunge turpitude
of onerous ogres who would subvert
our hard-won independence?
How so...
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...
Loss – By Danijela Trajković
I'm back in the village. And, of course, it is always my aunt that I encounter. We meet outside. She invites me to come...
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...
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...
Some Mad Poems Some Sad Poems Some Bad Poems and A Short Story in...
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Jayant Kripalani’s is a return to a kind of poetry few people write these days. As he himself writes, his...
Don’t Run, My Love – A Novella by Easterine Kire
Book Review by: Anjana Basu
Easterine Kire takes Naga folk tales and weaves them into stories that could belong to any time and place, set...
When I Hid My Caste – Stories by Baburao Bagul
When I Hid My Caste - Stories by Baburao Bagul
(Translated by Jerry Pinto)
Published by : Speaking Tiger, Price : INR 399/-
Book Review by Anjana Basu
These short stories ...
Why I consider Poetry an endangered art form – An interview with Ikeogu...
Ikeogu Oke is the winner of the 2017 edition of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, an annual competition sponsored by Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG)....
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...
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...
