By: Indu Pandey Confirm or Conform, both the terms revolve around the social norms that govern individual’s behaviour/ belief system. If we look at our social practices, these are rigid and deeply rooted […]
Confirm or Conform?
On the serious business of comedy
By: Srinivas S The business of comedy might be to make people laugh and perhaps, even, to laugh. It is a rather serious business, however, because creating comedy, and effective variants of […]
Top Writers Who Used Stream OF Consciousness to its Best
Among the myriad ways that storytellers and novelists have invented to narrate their tales, stream of consciousness is perhaps the only tool that has caught everyone’s fancy. While it sounds fascinating and […]
An analysis of Emily Dickinson’s (1830 – 1886) “Because I could not stop for death”
By Ian Fletcher Before I start my humble analysis, here is the poem to refresh the memories of those who know it and to introduce it to those who haven’t read this […]
Hemingway’s Universe: The Gravity of Irony
By Jack Kamm “The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.” ~Germaine Greer Like most of us, Hemingway couldn’t expunge his childhood, whose damage turned his […]
“Ethnic Anxiety, Cultural Clash reflected in the work of South Asian Writers”
By: Indu Pandey Parsis migrated from Persia to India in 7th century AD. They first settled in Sanjan and later spread to Bombay and many other parts of India. They had to face […]
The Melancholic’s Journey to the Real: Murakami’s the Wind-up Chronicle
By: Ilgın Yıldız Before embarking on a journey to find his wife, Toru Okada, the protagonist of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, is a man of a simple and routine life. […]
Traversing the Expressible: Stories of Death and Desire
By: Ilgin Yildiz Death and desire are inexhaustible themes in literary works, and short story as a brief literary form, allows for condensed and layered philosophical and psychological explorations. This essay will deploy a […]
Bards behind bars: Literature in a locked-down land
By: William T. Hathaway Prisons are one of the few growth industries in the USA today. They are becoming money-making institutions, and profits are rising. New ones are being built and old […]
Palestine—Hymn OR Dirge
GATE OF THE SUN– A Novel by Elias Khoury By Gaither Stewart (Rome) On this hot Italian late afternoon, after over a week inside the literary work entitled Gate of the Sun, […]
