By: Eugen Oniscu When I was twenty years old, I had formed a rather unusual habit: I would borrow a book from the library and go to my father’s grave, where a large cherry tree grew and a bench stood…
By: Frank J. Albert Abner Snopes in William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” is stolidly self-justified in his refusal to belong to any community. He is the hero of his own story – the story that plays out in his own…
By: Eliza Mimski I am one of those people who keeps a daily journal of sorts. That’s me–I’m 79 now– and I’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember. From the moment I wake up in the…
By James Aitchison The country around South Australia’s Flinders Ranges is unforgiving. It is also deceptive. Some years there’s enough grass to support thousands of sheep; in others, the pastures become an arid wasteland. Boom and bust, boom and bust…
By: Jun A. Alindogan Times have dramatically changed. Information is now disseminated at unprecedented speed, and all technological programs and innovations relate to communication. Transportation is no exception. While online transactions are intended to be convenient, this comfort can occasionally…
By Stephen Alexander A meme circulating social media shows a wedding photo of pop superstar Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner. The caption reads, “Everything I ask God for, He triples and gives to Dua Lipa.” The joke is…
By: Ramlal Agarwal Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brought him overnight success. It is the story of a primitive family, the Buendias, in the wild swamps of Colombia. The novel portrays the family’s inbreeding and its disastrous…
By: Pradeep Trikha This essay critically examines the poetry of Kiriti Sengupta, situating his work within the broader evolutionary trajectory of his literary oeuvre. It argues that Sengupta occupies a highly specialised, singular niche in contemporary Indian English poetry by…
By James Aitchison Aspiring writers frequently wonder why their work is rejected. Didn’t they like my idea? Didn’t they like my writing? Clumsy punctuation, misspelt and misused words and clunky phrases are the bane of busy editors. Faced with a…
By James Aitchison When words don’t come easily, invent them! William Shakespeare did, along with J. R. R. Tolkien, Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. In fact, Shakespeare invented 2,000 new words and phrases such as hurry, eyeball, puppy dog, dauntless,…