The Iconoclast
Identity
by Dilip Mohapatra (May 2016) How desperately we clutch to our names and surnames that spell our ancestry. How fervently we seek out our roots more>>>
Oh, Brother Mine
by James Como (May 2016) Consider Cain and Abel: allow the act as true and still you get it wrong, old stings of niceness-cum-nightmare. Fact. Are they known, two such […]
My Eyes Thirsty
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (May 2016) The heart had long seen through the deception, it was the mind that has always refused to believe— the blood that ran through the veins […]
Disturbing, Distant, Muffled Sounds by Miklós Radnóti
Translated from the Hungarian & Edited by Thomas Ország-Land (May 2016) THE HOLOCAUST did not begin with the gas chambers; and some people who cared or dared to look […]
Looking At Myself
by Bibhu Padhi (May 2016) I watch myself. From a distance that is not too far for a clear sight, nor too near so I see myself blurred. more>>>
Portrait of an Orientalist
by David Solway (May 2016) I perfume my beard with civet and rosewater, the room is fragrant with aloes-wood burning in a censer, I drink khamr, made of dates […]
Time and Loss: Variations
by Evelyn Hooven (May 2016) IN MEMORY OF That night, we wove our way With the white moon three fourths itself, more>>>
Alaattin and the Jinn
by A. Human Being (May 2016) May 15, 2014: Reyhanli, Hatay Province, Turkey Hajji Alaattin was a man who loved good coffee and conversation. He had five sons, had lived […]
Shakespeare Undoes Chivalry
by David P. Gontar (May 2016) Readers of
Missive to a Millennial
by G. Murphy Donovan (May 2016) “You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstances.” – Shakespeare [Sophomore year at college continues to live up to its reputation. A […]
Journey to India with Story of Books
On My Visit to 2016 New Delhi World Book Fair by Lizhi He (May 2016) When a friend of mine in India invited me to join the 2016 New Delhi […]
The Abolition of Slavery in the Danish West Indies and the Governor’s Mulatto Mistress
by Norman Berdichevsky (May 2016) The Virgin Islands is a favorite tourist spot for Caribbean cruises. January 2017 will mark the 100th anniversary of the sale of what was the […]
Noam Chomsky in 1969
by Richard Kostelanetz (May 2016) These display what all scientific revolutions are about. Each of them necessitated the community’s rejection of one time-honored scientific theory in favor of another incompatible […]
Have Sanctions Stopped Joint Iran – North Korea Nuclear ICBM Development?
by Jerry Gordon and Ilana Freedman (May 2016) This has been a banner year for North Korea and its partner, the Islamic Republic of Iran. They have demonstrated the […]
The New Plutocracy: How Democrats Betrayed Their Origins
by Lorna Salzman (May 2016) There are various definitions of the term “false consciousness.” While Marx did not use that exact term, the concept continues to be prevalent in left-wing […]
Cowboys and Indians—and the Racism Myth
by Samuel Hux (May 2016) I’m deep into a work-in-progress on race-obsession which this essay is a part of: not race-prejudice, for I’m confident that the notion that “this is […]
