By: Trevor Anthony The dignity of the artist lies in keeping alive the sense of wonder in the world. – G.K. Chesterton The world loves nothing better than to blacken […]
The Renaissance of Criticism: A Post-Postmodern Manifesto
Agency in the Anthropocene: Michel Serres with feminist new materialisms
By: Ilgin Yildiz The predicament of our moment (Anthropocene, Chthulucene, Capitalocene…) calls for disruptive ways of thinking and acting. A (re)reading of Michel Serres with feminist new materialisms (FNM) can lead us […]
The question of identity
By: Karoline Wimmer “How do you identify? Do you feel more Austrian or more Indian?” my grandfather asked me last week during our family lunch. I had not anticipated this and was […]
The History of A Shoe Maker: A Landmark of a Successful Careerist
By: Mohammad Jashim Uddin Because of prolific career, Mr. Muhammad Abdul Maleque has experienced different historical and socio-cultural ups and downs. His book The History of A Shoe Maker is nothing but […]
Class Struggle in ‘The Boatman of The Padma River’
By: Mohammad Jashim Uddin Literature is the reflection of social picture and human life. It highlights the socio-economic condition, religious belief and its impact on human being, changes of the world, ecology […]
The Tale of an Overweight Rebel
By: David Whippman Ask a random section of the reading public to name a novel by George Orwell, and the overwhelming response will be either Animal Farm or 1984. My personal favourite, […]
Hysteria, Foucault, and Feminism: Resistance in Psychiatric Power and Phallogocentric Discourse
By: Ilgin Yildiz Hysteria as a disease has over 4000 years of history. Freud invented psychoanalysis on the basis of his work with female hysterics like ‘Dora’ (Ida Bauer). In 1952, with […]
What Comes Next: The World After Postmodernism
By: Adam Wan Postmodernism—a cultural, philosophical, artistic, literary, and architectural movement that emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century, and twenty or so years into the twenty-first century, the movement […]
Unwitting Encounters with the Creature
By: Sultana Raza Forced to shelter indoors in 1818, the year without a summer, Mary Shelley brought one of the most famous monster to life at the Villa Diodati in Geneva. Little […]
Obituary: Tom Wollaston
By: Shukburgh Ashby Near-unknown writer, and an undiscovered giant of twentieth century literature A friend told me that Tom Wollaston died last week. He must’ve been in his nineties. I’d like to […]
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