By James Aitchison He is the role model for aspiring young authors: a writer who set himself a target of 1,200,000 words a year, typed with two fingers! Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author in the 1960s.  He…

By James Aitchison Bestsellers in their day, but forgotten now.  The pioneers of spy fiction, hundreds of them, produced thousands of stories between 1914 and 1939.  Some, like Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, John…

By: Mitali Chakravarty Boimela At Boimela, youngguitars sing poetry.Gaiety fills the air. Boys and girlsare everywhere.Book lovers meetin pages: somefind true love:some dig deeper,mazed by magicmists or mantras. Here languagesgreet across thestreets. Writerslaunch words inrockets to explorethe skies, meetstars till…

By Douglas Young Douglas Young is an author and professor emeritus whose essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications in America, Canada, Europe, and Asia. His first novel, Deep in the Forest, was published in 2021 and…

By Thomas Sanfilip It is no secret that politics and literature have shared a long history together, often producing great literature in the process—Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, Alfred Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and others. But except for using political conflict as merely the backdrop to rather…

The literary world has long been fascinated by the “difficult” woman. For centuries, female protagonists were expected to be paragons of virtue—the “Angel in the House.” But some of history’s most enduring characters are those who refused to fit the…

By: Bruce Levine The art of geniosityMore than just an M & M in a bagFocused on the best and the worstThe universe has to bringAdding together the good and the badInto a formula for profusion of ideasA plethora of…

By: James Aitchison Each day you formyour eternal self,shaped by a myriad testsand endless humanintersections.You are wrought inthe flames of life’s fire,and by the vandalism ofhuman emotions.In the self-honest silenceexamine your own spirituality,and let it magnifya hundredfold.

South India’s most anticipated celebration of literature, Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters returns for its 7thedition from 29th January to 1st February 2026, at the iconic Kanakakkannu Palace, Thiruvanthapuram, capital of Kerala.  The upcoming edition of this festival turns its focus on…

By: Ron Riekki Poem about the PTSD counselor yelling at me to relax, to just relax, and yelling doesn’t help. And that’s it. That’s the whole poem. About how yelling doesn’t help. You’d think a PTSD counselor would know this,…