Empathy – By George Angel
Call me Smudge. Not sure when exactly, I became yet another current in the watery world. Circulating far beyond spleen or regulation, I have...
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...
Nixon’s Final Pat – By Anthony J. Mohr
Richard Nixon’s life was full of Pats. First came his wife Pat. Next, Pat Hitt. She was the national co‑chair of his 1968 presidential...
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...
The Making of Pharoni – By Colin Dodds
Pharoni is the story of what happens when Harry Injurides returns from the dead. His reappearance and his message send his friends in strange directions....
Thoughts on Modernist poetry – By Colin Ian Jeffery
Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles, with the movement associated with new trends in...
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...
Your Hands – By Kunal Mehra
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..story about my mother’s hands and all they’ve borne witness to, and how our hands can store memories and be the reservoir of our...
The Bone-Crushers – By Jeanne Farewell
They did not just crush them: they ate them. Some of the bones were of animals from the slaughterhouse; others were human bones from...
Theater Musings – By Gary Beck
Seven million G.I.s returned from World War II and went to college on the G.I. bill, paid for by grateful Uncle Sam. This led...
