By Rex Bowman It’s early summer and I’m sitting on the couch, hurriedly flipping through the sports channels with an air of desperation, as if the pin has just fallen out of […]
Reading Emily Wilson’s Trash-Talking Odyssey in the Time of Covid
Review: ‘East of Eden’
By: Christine Baek John Steinbeck opens with a painstaking depiction of the Salinas Valley, his childhood home, and allows both his adoration and familiarity with the landscape to bleed into his descriptions: […]
The Appeal of Mr. Darcy
By Revathi Ganeshsundaram Most female fans of Jane Austen, and of her classic novel Pride and Prejudice, would have been in love with Mr. Darcy at some stage of their lives or […]
Relishing the last sweet bite before it all ends in Harjo’s ‘Perhaps the World Ends here’
By Hiba Heba A kitchen table is ornamented with the paragons of humanity. It is the beginning, as well as the end of the world. Joy Harjo and her pensiveness record history […]
These Muted Mothball Days
By: Ian C Smith My serendipitous introduction to Yeats’ early poem, He Wishes for The Cloths of Heaven, came about when I lifted an antimacassar on my armchair, exposing a hidden letter. […]
UNIVERSITY WITS – transitory playwrights who set preclude to realistic literature in Elizabethan age
By: Aniruddh Shastree Abstract: ‘University Wits’ is a title given to a group of writers of the late 16th Century England by a 19th Century Scholar named George Saintsbury. These writers were […]
Dirty Hands
By Gaither Stewart “You should therefore know that there are two ways to fight: one while abiding by the rules, the other by using force. The first approach is unique to Man; […]
Significance, Meaning, and Purpose in Contemporary Biographical Poetry
By: Robert Levine An interesting but often overlooked subspecies of narrative verse is biographical poetry, relating the life story of a real person; a well-read friend of mine told me he didn’t […]
The Idea of a Nation in the Movie “Matir Moina”
By: Rituparna Sahoo “Matir Moina” is a 2002 Bangladeshi film directed by Tareq Masud . The movie is set against background of the brewing political tension in East Pakistan in 1900s which […]
Sexism in the Films of Jean-Luc Godard
By Dan Morey A conversation is needed. A freewheeling debate. So I give you M and F, two critics who will examine gender depiction in Godard’s films. Critic F will argue that […]
