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 Literary Oligarchy Is Killing Writing – By Ranbir Sidhu
Years ago, when I was first trying to make a name for myself as a writer, a prominent Indian novelist and one whom I...
Two Ancient Sumerian Elegies in English – By Tikva Hecht
Author's Note:
These elegies were originally written in Sumerian and are dated circa 1700 BC, making them among the oldest known written texts in the...
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...
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...
Concrete Art – By Mario Loprete
Mario Loprete says:
Painting for me is my first love. An important, pure love. Creating a painting, starting from the spasmodic research of a concept...
The Long Weeping – By Jessie van Eerden ( An excerpt )
( The Long Weeping - In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital “lamp of the body,” a spiritual organ...
Radius 200 – By Veena Nagpal (Excerpts)
Set against the backdrop of a nuclear strike on Allahabad, Radius 200 is a poignant story centering round love and longing and the very spirit...
The Anti-Poetry of Salvador Villanueva
By Gustavo Rivera
There is a sliver of truth when Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, in her book Literatura Puertorriquena: Su proceso en el tiempo (Puerto Rican...
Celebrating Gandhi – Haiku Posters By Masood Hussain & Gabriel Rosenstock
Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain teamed up with bilingual poet and haiku master Gabriel Rosenstock to create 6 haiku posters that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, the apostle of civil disobedience.
