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Ginger – By Eric D. Goodman
The story of a family dog and how each family member copes with the dog's loss.
Duane
It was difficult for Duane. He was used to...
God in Poetry : Does He exist in the Postmodern Anarchic World? – ...
Father! Thou must lead.
Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind
By which such virtue may in me be bred
That in...
A Bodhisattva-in-Training Contemplates Kathmandu’s Rude Motorcyclists – By Michael G. Smith
At the end of the row of Tibetan Buddhist monks, the cantor chants a prayer. Clashing Sil Nyan cymbals together, another monk adds an...
Elusive Dream – By Joe Bakovsky
Baseball has always been my favorite pastime.I learned the principals of this game when I would visit my grandparents at the innocent age of...
Looking beyond the Raj era literary narratives – By Mitali Chakravarty
A re-appraisal of the colonial era literary constructs is very much the need of the hour in all cultures that endured stereotyping under long...
Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch – By David Bottoms
Book Review by Lynn Alexander
Just as Dante’s journey to the underworld begins in a dark wood, the ghosts of loss arise out of the...
The Voyage – By Christopher Manners
Book Review by Dustin Pickering
“Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
-Plotinus
Christopher Manners’ The Voyage is a work of substantial philosophical maturity....
The Good Day I Died – By Desmond Kon
How does literature respond to death or A Near-Death Experience?
By Mitali Chakravarty
Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness—for then
The spirits of the...
Can a Dictionary Be a Novel? – By Ted Gioia
Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars
At times, the progressive spirits of 20th century fiction seemed determined to turn the novel into something other than...
My Questions, My Answers – Rimli Bhattacharya
What motivates you to write?
I grew up watching my parents who were academicians. They devoured books and I was introduced to reading different kinds...
My Questions, My Answers – Indunil Madhusankha
Could you please tell us about yourself, your background, how you started writing, and what you have written so far?
I live in Sri Lanka,...
My Questions, My Answers – Rey Armenteros
Where do you usually write? At a computer? Longhand on a yellow pad? Typewriter?
Ideally, I write prose on a keyboard, because I need the...
My Questions, My Answers – Dustin Pickering
How old were you when you began writing? What was the inspiration?
When I was about seven years old, I wrote a story called The...
