Issue 71 | June 2022
Conversations: Bitan Chakraborty and Kiriti Sengupta
“Every detail is credible, anchored in the mundane reality of city-dwellers in urban metropolises in contemporary India. [Bitan] Chakraborty is not a fantasist or fabulist; reality is an unvarying constant…
Finding Toussaint Louverture, Spartacus of the Haitian Revolution
Contemplating Toussaint Louverture’s unfulfilled promise alongside his immense accomplishments.
On the Fairy Tales School of English-Language Poetry
Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic poetry today.
Loosening the Flesh & the Mind: Relic & The Taking of Deborah Logan
Watching horror movies is a kind of mastery. Metaphors become literal, and real horror is supernatural.
Conversations: Tina Cane and Nick Courtright
Put simply: Humor Saves. I am a fan of humor as a survival mechanism, an ice-breaker, a rhetorical device, and vice.
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