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A Review of Jhilam Chattaraj's Collection of Poems "Noise Cancellation"
In present times, where “the new normal” is changing drastically, the poems are a welcoming read.

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Nov 10, 20214 min read


A Review of Shin Yu Pai's Collection of Poems Virga
It is a comforting, meditative and spiritual book that offers some semblance of solace in these harrowing times.

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Nov 5, 20213 min read


Staring Outwards in All the Directions: A Review on Michelle Cahill’s Poetry Collection Vishvarupa
Cahill’s rendition of Vishvarupa not only looks out into the world, but ambits, and from that sojourn creates something unlimited...

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Oct 4, 20215 min read


A Review of Sanjeev Sethi’s Hesitancies
Sethi shows us the uses of poetry; He also moulds his craft to articulate the wise, rare yet universal verities of life.

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Sep 27, 20213 min read


Lonely Ghosts: Absence as Somethingness in the Works of Viet Thanh Nguyen
To see oneself only as a victim simplifies power and excuses the victim from the obligations of ethical behavior in politics, warfare...

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Sep 23, 202117 min read


An Interview with Isabel Allende
Stories are like seeds. I carry them in my belly and some start to grow inside until I absolutely have to let them out.

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Sep 17, 20215 min read


The Practice of Writing Narrative History: An Interview with Matthew Goodman
With narrative history you’re telling a true story, same as with any other kind of history.

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Sep 8, 20218 min read


Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality: On Andrew Palmer’s The Bachelor
You’re willing to go with Palmer’s narrator on his existential quest, and entertain his lofty meta-critiques on contemporary culture.

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Aug 21, 20216 min read


The English Professor Who Linked Literature to World Politics
Brennan is convincing in his rendering of a self-critical intellectual who opened the world’s mind to the impact of language and art.

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Jul 4, 20215 min read


Spinning: An Interview with Meg Pokrass
In this interview, Meg and Tony talk about the evolution of flash, micro, the craft of fiction, and Meg's new collection, Spinning to Mars.

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Jun 16, 202113 min read


Prologue to Someone's Always Watching You
It must be said from the outset that Mac Aogáin’s writing is beyond classification.

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Jun 6, 20215 min read


Oh, Yes it Will
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America brings us to now, the intersectionality of the historical and present.

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May 8, 20216 min read


Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks
Double Chiaroscuro: A Review of Balzac’s Lives by Peter Brooks

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May 5, 20215 min read


A Guide and an Almanac
by John Liddy Kieran Beville opens his book with the appropriate chapter heading, “Making a Start,” and some advice from Stephen King:...

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Apr 4, 20216 min read


SO WILL THE SCRIBES
by Nicolas D. Sampson Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke (Bantam Classics, 1988) ‘But I counsel...

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Mar 29, 202110 min read


EZRA POUND AND DESMOND O’ GRADY
by John Liddy Much has been written by eminent critics on Ezra Pound’s relationship with William Butler Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel...

Nina (Xinqi) Zhang
Mar 23, 20218 min read


A Candle for Her Lake-staring Mother
by John Liddy Zephyr by Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry, 2010) On first browsing through these poems with my customary “getting to know you”...

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Mar 18, 20213 min read


Instead of a Review a Tribute to Mark Whelan
by John Liddy The Sear of Wounds by Mark Whelan (Doghouse, 2012) In my copy of Mark’s last published book, The Sear of Wounds, he wrote a...

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Mar 14, 20214 min read


Ugly Beautiful Books
by Anjanette Delgado What is it about the ugly, the scatological, that has such power to break us open? To clear our defenses and...

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Mar 12, 202111 min read


Interview with Christine Sneed
In this interview Christine Sneed and Tony Huang talk about Sneed's flash piece "First Date" and much more.

Nina (Xinqi) Zhang
Mar 7, 202114 min read
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