Musings of a First-Time Mother – By Colette RC
Babies do not ask to be born, and yet…
Most women eventually wind up becoming mothers, whether by choice or circumstance, or some combination thereof....
C. S. Lewis and Narnia
By Kenny Chumbley
It is often the case that children are introduced to the genius of C. S. Lewis through his fantasy series, The Chronicles...
‘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...
The Cloak of Invisibility – By Dustin Pickering
Poets often reflect that poetry emerges from the character of the poet. As Americans are awash in the forces of contemporary life, there is...
Notes on Conceptual Fiction – By Ted Gioia
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Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic? After all, there are no Newtonian laws in stories—an...
The Rise of the Cli-Fi Literary Genre – By Danny Bloom
As the 20th century began to morph into the 21st century in the late 1990s, the global landscape of cultural production started to teem...
Lewis Carroll and Nonsense – By Kenny Chumbley
“It sounds uncommon nonsense.” The Mock Turtle
Among the storied authors of children’s...
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,...
Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions – By Jim...
Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...
When Earth and Sky Intermingle : Science and Poetry – By Michael G. Smith
Poetry has never revealed its full face to anyone. Its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It defies any attempt at a...
