Tag: articles

Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

0
Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

A review of Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.

On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself

0
On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself

“Write what you know” is common writing advice. But how do we make this mean something and make it a part of our own writing?

Jean Paul

0
Jean Paul

One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Problematic Pollock: Why is he painting on the rug?

0
Problematic Pollock: Why is he painting on the rug?

Exploring some of the ways in which cultural history has glorified Pollock’s work and turned it into a monolithic iconic entity.

Eyes on the Prize

0
Eyes on the Prize

Before there was transgender there was One-Eyed Charley.

A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

0
A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson

A book review of Couri Johnson’s latest novella of fabulist short stories.

The Lang Fairy Books

0
The Lang Fairy Books

A brief overview of the famous series edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, and his wife Nora, who did much of the rewriting.

Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

0
Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems

A review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems by Oisín Breen.

Review of The Mayapple Forest

0
Review of The Mayapple Forest

A review of Kim Ports Parsons’ book of poetry The Mayapple Forest.

The Hongwu Emperor, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and “The Hundred Word Eulogy”

0
The Hongwu Emperor, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and “The Hundred Word Eulogy”

“The Hundred Word Eulogy” as pro-Islamic is challenged by translations that suggest the material fulfills two functions of a eulogy.

The Jejune

0
The Jejune

The jejune shares a handsome similitude with Mammon, in his politically-correct dysplasia, and  his ability to fake.

Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar

0
Review of The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar

A review of Emily Schulten’s book of poetry The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar.

Thoughts on Modernist poetry

0
Thoughts on Modernist poetry

The modernist poetry movement has radically changed the rules in form, style, stanza, and rhythm.

Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins

0
Political challenges in a selected section of ‘Insights and Poems’ (1975) by Huey Newton and Ericka Huggins

A review of insights and poems by Huey Newton as well as extensive political commentary on the overarching significance of the man.

Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen

5
Helen, Life and Times – Unafraid Minutes on Hindustani Cinema and its Deployment of Helen

This book can elicit an infectious curiosity about Bollywood amongst audiences beyond the mediascape of India/South Asia.

Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

0
Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

An interview with Best-Selling Novelist Jonathan Evison about his new book, Small World (2022).