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...
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...
We Shall Overcome – By Rimli Bhattacharya
I was talking to Manisha on phone when I broke down.
“Nothing makes me happy, Manisha,” I sounded exhausted. A cacophony she has heard before.
Which...
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 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...
Charles Kingsley : “Tomfoolery with a Serious Purpose”
By Kenny Chumbley
No one familiar with Victorian literature would rate Charles Kingsley’s books among the very best except, maybe, his children’s fantasy, The Water-Babies.
Charles Kingsley...
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...
Ever More – By George Angel
We are temporary arrangements, assuming some improvised access to autonomy, exploring surrounding chaos, telescoping, with what filters appear to be in reach, at whims...
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...
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...
