Juntas and Housewives: Three Books from Brazil

Brazil’s “ghosts” refuse to stay buried in these three novels.

Infinite Metabolism: Lispector’s Consumptions

And what if we are, I am, you are that marginalized person? When I erase myself, what do I become?

Traces in Rituals: On Kiriti Sengupta

The famed Kolkata poet seeks coherence in the chaos we call reality.

Conversations: Jennifer Barber and Leslie McGrath

The “something else” might be close to the original intention, but never exactly it.

The Poetry of Julio César Aguilar

Poet, translator, editor, director of poetry projects, and professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Julio César Aguilar was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, in 1970. He is the author…

The Path

When someone shoots a dark look, I think it is because I am a middle-aged white woman with a spirited black child.

Party On: An experimental review of Ksenia Buksha’s Freedom Factory

It was a surprisingly hilarious novel, a bubbling pot of big personalities, forty short chapters bursting with historical detail, wit, and Communist Party nostalgia.

Chaucer was more than English: he was a great European poet

In 2013, a Prospect magazine profile of the UKIP leader Nigel Farage described the Brexiteer’s party in Chaucerian terms: UKIP is indeed a rag-tag bag … of cussed, contrary, wilful,…

The gay-suicide stereotype kills gay people, and must end

Friedrich Alfred Krupp, heir to the mammoth Krupp armaments business and the wealthiest man in Germany, committed suicide on 22 November 1902. Only a week before, a socialist newspaper had…

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