The Calculated Sentiments of Rainer— James Storbakken
The Gazelle Gazella Dorcas Enchanted one: how shall the harmonyof two perfect words attain that rhymewhich ripples through you like a spell?From your forehead rise leaf and lyre, and all you are already moves in similethrough…...
Dreamwork Case: Displacement and Condensation at Play in Orhan Pamuk’s The New Life— Nazli Karabıyıkoğlu
Translated from the Turkish by Eylül Deniz Doğanay Sigmund Freud’s dreamwork theory can be helpful when we attempt to decipher the novel, The New Life, and what we deduce as one, long, irritating dream…...
A Picnic in the Sunshine with Knausgaard and Proust— James Storbakken
The day Karl Ove Knausgaard was to speak in Hollywood, touring to promote the U.S. debut of the sixth and final novel of his 6-book series, an absolute masterpiece, My Struggle, I found myself in a…...
A Kaleidoscope of Women Narratives: Pieces at Padatik Theatre— Ankita Bose
The Brownian motion of reverberating thoughts, zigzagging themselves, wriggled my mind as Anubha Fatepuria took the final bow. The solo act titled Pieces, staged twice on 30th April and 1st May 2022…...
The Importance of Ernest Resurfaced in Órgiva – James Storbakken
The dusty streets don’t care, nor do the local residents, but the blatant fact is that the town is full of thousands of hippies. And in this little Andalusian village on the hillside, Órgiva, nestled…...
Smile, Laugh, Cry – Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis
Smile The lyrics say You’ll find that life is just worthwhile if you just smile.* I happened to look at the pictures in the obituaries that the families chose and wondered what they meant to…...
Introducing Mario Benedetti: the Uruguayan Writer and his Naïve and “Not-so-Naïve” Narrators – Clark Bouwman
Uruguay is a small country wedged between Argentina and Brazil, a country of pastureland, lovely beaches, and a large cosmopolitan city, Montevideo. Among its gifts to the world is the literary achievement of the late…...
Gestures Of The Latin American Poetry – Juan Daniel Neira Basto
Selected from the Spanish by Ikaro Valderrama OrtizJuan Daniel Neira Basto (Bogota, 1992) is a professional in Literary Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Teacher, poet, musician, and theater…...
Goodbye Gianni – Enrico Palandri
Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1937. The novels Le Avventure di Guizzardi (1973), La Banda dei Sospiri (1976) and Lunario del Paradiso (1978) established Celati as an author of…...