We Shall Overcome – By Rimli Bhattacharya

    I was talking to Manisha on phone when I broke down. “Nothing makes me happy, Manisha,” I sounded exhausted. A cacophony she has heard before. Which...

Nixon’s Final Pat – By Anthony J. Mohr

    Richard Nixon’s life was full of Pats. First came his wife Pat. Next, Pat Hitt. She was the national co‑chair of his 1968 presidential...

Literature as Seduction – By Richard Krause

    It was her idea.  How can she improve her English? she nuzzled up close to him after one of the last classes.  “Stories, that's what...

The Making of Pharoni – By Colin Dodds

    Pharoni is the story of what happens when Harry Injurides returns from the dead. His reappearance and his message send his friends in strange directions....

Thoughts on Modernist poetry – By Colin Ian Jeffery

    Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles, with the movement associated with new trends in...

Viktor Pelevin, a Reminder of What Was, and What May Come Again in Russia

  By Jim Curtis   Viktor Pelevin (b. 1962) is arguably the key figure for anyone who wants to understand post-Stalinist, post-Soviet Russian culture, particularly with regard...

Your Hands – By Kunal Mehra

  * ..story about my mother’s hands and all they’ve borne witness to, and how our hands can store memories and be the reservoir of our...

The Bone-Crushers – By Jeanne Farewell

    They did not just crush them: they ate them.  Some of the bones were of animals from the slaughterhouse; others were human bones from...

Theater Musings – By Gary Beck

    Seven million G.I.s returned from World War II and went to college on the G.I. bill, paid for by grateful Uncle Sam. This led...

Summer At Their Home – By Kunal Mehra

    Every summer, starting when I was around eight, my mom, sister, and I would pack our bags, buy train tickets and hop on the...

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