Non-Fiction

    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....

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

  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...

  * ..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...

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

    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...

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

    I have lost my dignity. Though my wife mourns it daily, is appalled, I say, "Good riddance!" I sit hunched over and receive the minutes, let...

    I believe poetry is the highest of mankind’s literary achievements, timeless, appealing down the ages, revealing imagery of the poet’s struggles and experiences, stresses...

         “Magical realism gives a voice to the soul, a language to the heart.” Time is a fickle mistress. Even scientists and philosophers...