The Iconoclast
Saffron Rain
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016) And it poured and poured as I held my umbrella and stood under the awning of the bookstore more>>>
A Hand is the First Thing One Gives to Another
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (February 2016) Lies inform the leftover caresses. more>>>
Flow Infinite
by Dilip Mohapatra (February 2016) The ink flows in microdrops and encapsulates the flow of thoughts on sheafs of virgin paper more>>>
Three Poems From a Sequence: Nightmare Versions
In these bizarre times our own nightmares can seem a refuge by Evelyn Hooven (February 2016) A SUMMARY It does recur, yes often— The voices intimate, stern, […]
The Merchant of Scarsdale
by David P. Gontar (February 2016) There was once a successful financier of Scarsdale who had accumulated a sizable fortune in the commodities market. As his health was good and […]
The University Talk that Cost Ali Wheatley His Career
by A. Human Being (February 2016) September 13, 2013: Arkham, Massachusetts, USA If Western scholars must bury the fact that Muhammad was a mass-murderer, then something is deeply wrong with […]
The Faces of Love
by Sam Bluefarb (February 2015) “There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the face of doom, which invariably compels human beings to linger around […]
Glimpsing a Revolution through the Chinks of the Text: Deconstructing Mrichchhakatika
by Ankur Betageri (February 2016) Poverty and the effect it has on the psyche of man is a central theme in Shudraka’s play Mrichchhakatika. Poverty forces the characters to […]
Thornton Wilder: Two Laments
by James Como (February 2016) These days the American reading and theatre-going public pays little attention to Thornton Wilder, and that sporadically at best, as when David Cromer’s marvelous production […]
The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest – Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2016)
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril
Peace Will Come, Anne Frank Insists, You Will See by Thomas Ország-Land (February 2016) Bernard Kops, the doyen of Anglo-Jewish letters, has responded to a global resurgence of violent anti-Semitism […]
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
by Norman Berdichevsky (February 2016)
“Thank you Donald”
by Lorna Salzman (February 2016) TO: Donald Trump FROM: Pres. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee SUBJECT: in appreciation for your racist rants Dear Donald: We are really […]
Attila the Hen
by G. Murphy Donovan (February 2016) “If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens.” – Grandma Moses It all began as a bit of an experiment. Three neighbors […]
Reconsidering Literary Blacklisting
by Richard Kostelanetz (February 2016) Allan H. Ryskind’s
Boko Haram burns kids alive in northeast Nigeria: witness
Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue. A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said that Boko Haram militants attacked the community of Dalori, about 5 km (3 […]
