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...
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...
Your Hands – By Kunal Mehra
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..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...
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...
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...
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...
Money-Changers in the Temple: Evil Bankers in Literature and Film – By Tim Wenzell
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” –Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Taylor, May 28,...
What is Poetry? – By Colin Ian Jeffery
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...
Translation as Transhumance – By Mireille Gansel (Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz)...
(In this beautiful memoir of a life lived in and through translation, Mireille Gansel defines the process of bringing words from one language to...
