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...
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...
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 Eight Memes of the Postmodern Mystery – By Ted Gioia
What do postmodern writers have against the mystery novel? For reasons that perhaps only a Lacan or Derrida could deconstruct, they have turned to it again...
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...
What is a Poem ? – By Michael Angel Martin
What Is a Poem? Not Sure. But Let Me Count the Ways
One of the best lessons I have learned as a writer of...
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...
How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers – By Lidija Dimkovska
“What was happening in Croatia and more generally throughout Yugoslavia was discussed at the university, often in connection with soldiers from the Yugoslav National...
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...
