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...
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...
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...
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...
The Newsroom Look – By Rey Armenteros
I wish I could put neckties in the wash. It is pointless to talk about it now. On a whim, that was exactly what...
The Formula for Fantasy – By Kenny Chumbley
All fairy tales are fantasy, but not all fantasies are fairy tales. Fairy tales require fairy folk (elves, gnomes, etc.). The Three Little Pigs...
Sparkling Form – By Pavle Radonic
1. Escaping the sh_tholes for a place in the Sun
Adjacent table at KV the other day a couple of Indian lads chatting over lunch,...
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,...