No Such Thing As Distance – Karen Paul Holmes
Review by Lynn Alexander
When you enter Karen Paul Holmes’s poetry, you travel a path between love and death, joy and anguish, gravity and humor—the...
Can a Dictionary Be a Novel? – By Ted Gioia
Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars
At times, the progressive spirits of 20th century fiction seemed determined to turn the novel into something other than...
An Ever River – By David Russell (Eco Poetry)
Book Review by Colin Hambrook
As the title of Dave Russell’s collection suggests An Ever River bursts and blisters with references to the elements, nature and humanity’s...
Naishapur and Babylon – By Keki N. Daruwalla
Review by Anjana Basu
Despite the Machine Guns
The warped image of a kingfisher in the water - at least it is a bird, at least...
Grandma Non-Oui – By Lidija Dimkovska
About the book
Written as an exchange between Grandma and Nedjeljka, her granddaughter and namesake, a conversation unfolds that encompasses a broad range of times...
I was the Wind Last Night (New & Collected Poems)- Ruskin Bond
By Anjana Basu
Mountains of Silence
Ruskin Bond’s poetry, like his prose is without pretentions. His verses are rhymed in some cases, not in some and...
Blossoms of Decay – Gary Beck
By Rajesh Subramanian
Evil has been an inescapable part of the human environment since time immemorial. Whether it originates from the Satan or otherwise, its...
Walk with Gandhi – By Gabriel Rosenstock & Masood Hussain
Review by Rajesh Subramanian
Walk with Gandhi is a book of haiku poetry (bilingual- English & Irish), each poem accompanied by a beautiful painting. The...
In my Patina Cup- By Sadia Khan
Book Review by Shazia Batool Naqvi
The metaphorical Title of this volume: “In my Patina Cup” brought to mind the gem words of Muriel Rukeyser(1):...
The Brothers Silver – By Marc Jampole
Book Review by Violet Snow
About the Novel: Jules and Leon Silver sit at a...
