Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution Reflections on the Anthology and on Activism in the Arts I have been thinking for a time of what I’m about to say from an outsider’s perspective. Well, the world is small enough to make all of us insiders. This is another insider’s perspective. Iran is onContinue reading “Woman, Life, Freedom: Reflections on the Anthology and on Activism in the Arts. By Cy Strom”
Category Archives: Non-fiction
Excerpt from the Introduction to Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works. By Editor Bianca Lakoseljac
Excerpt from the Introduction to Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works Why the collection, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works? That is the question a number of my colleagues and friends asked when I talked about compiling and editing an anthology on Wiebe’s works. During my graduate studies at York University, I took a course,Continue reading “Excerpt from the Introduction to Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works. By Editor Bianca Lakoseljac”
Jibanananda Das: Nationalism and Internationalism. an essay by Mozid Mahmud
Jibanananda Das: Nationalism and Internationalism Jibanananda Das had tried writing poetry in English, had written a few essays in the language too. But those did not go quite well and even when they did, it meant nothing for Bengali literature and its readers. He did not try being (in)famous the way Madhusudan Dutta did; MadhusudanContinue reading “Jibanananda Das: Nationalism and Internationalism. an essay by Mozid Mahmud”
Sahasrara, Thousand Petaled Lotus. Adventures in Creative Non-fiction by Brian Michael Barbeito
Sahasrara, Thousand Petaled Lotus Prose Poem, Letters Home, Adventures in Creative Non-fiction (a belles lettres epistolary episodic) ‘But we are all a bit broken, aren’t we?’ Maggie The Capricorn Woman. Prologue: The Woodlands Whimsical and Wondrous, a Stone in my Shoe but the Fine Firmament Blue I am atop the hill, on the summit, andContinue reading “Sahasrara, Thousand Petaled Lotus. Adventures in Creative Non-fiction by Brian Michael Barbeito”
The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein
The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein But regardless of whether or not the Giller declares an interest in ideas of nation when selecting juries, the prize does present a vision of Canadian literature. The visibility of a select group of works chosen by an awards jury contributes toContinue reading “The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian. Excerpt from the Introduction by Olga Stein”
The Hitchhiker. Non-fiction by Tracey Keilly
The Hitchhiker I was driving down Beverly Boulevard in a gold 1971 Volvo that looked like a spaceship. My dad had purchased the car for me a year before from a disillusioned actress in the San Fernando Valley. When we arrived at her home to pick up the car, the actress let us in and began sobbing. She said she was moving toContinue reading “The Hitchhiker. Non-fiction by Tracey Keilly”
Lysenko, Enemy of Soviet Science, and a Dissertation Left on a Windowsill. Memoir by Nina Kossman
Lysenko, Enemy of Soviet Science, and a Dissertation Left on a Windowsill In memory of my mother, Maya Borisovna Shternberg Back in the seventies, people emigrating from the Soviet Union were not allowed to take with them certain things, such as books published before 1917 (the year of the Bolshevik revolution), manuscripts, typescripts, works ofContinue reading “Lysenko, Enemy of Soviet Science, and a Dissertation Left on a Windowsill. Memoir by Nina Kossman”
Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein
Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire: The Soviet Jew in Full Colour Mikhail Iossel’s collection of memoir and lyrical pieces, Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, bears witness to a particular kind of experience — that of living and identifying as a Jew in the Soviet Union (now former Soviet Union) during theContinue reading “Essay on Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire. by Olga Stein”
Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Into the Soul of the World, Brad Wetzler (Hachette Books 2023)The Man Who Hacked the World, Alex Cody Foster (Turner Publishing 2022)Still Pictures, Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Ghosts of the Orphanage, Christine Keneally (Public Affairs 2023)We Were Once a Family, Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Just Once, No More, CharlesContinue reading “Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn”
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein
Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking I haven’t attended a lecture or author reading since COVID. The pandemic was reason enough not to go anywhere crowded, and since — well, since then I’ve had to overcome certain habits of mind, as well as a tendency to prioritize tasks thatContinue reading “Two Readings, Three Authors: On the Pleasures of Listening to Women Talking. by Olga Stein”
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