Patricia Highsmith’s “Strangers On a Train”
by Julia Hones The saying that says that “nobody is a prophet in his own land” applies well to Patricia Highsmith whose literary work was unappreciated in the United States for the entire length of her...
View ArticleBettina Knapp’s Emily Dickinson Life and Literature
by Julia Hones Bettina Knapp’s “Emily Dickinson Life and Literature“, as the title suggests, explores details of Dickinson’s relationships and inner conflicts. Emily was born in 1830, in Amherst,...
View ArticleLinda Hogan’s Indios: Modernizing the Myth
Review by Chip Livingston There are things readers have come to expect from a new Linda Hogan book, a garden of language tended to nourish coming generations; a story integrated with elements fertile...
View ArticleJanuary First
reviewed by Walker Rowe Reading Michael Schofield’s “January First” is enough to make you bang your head against the wall. The condition of his schizophrenic daughter of course is enough to make...
View ArticleGillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl”
reviewed by Walker Rowe In Gillian Flynn’s action packed thriller “Gone Girl”, Nick Dunne is an unemployed writer who comes home one day to find that his wife Amy Elliott Dunne has disappeared. This...
View ArticleRecommended read: The Shadow of What we Were
review by Walker Rowe Living here in Chile, so long after the military coup, one grows weary of hearing about Pinochet and the expatriate experience of those who were forced to exile from the nation...
View ArticleFormas de Volver a Casa
Por Jirad Saragg “Formas de Volver a Casa” (2011) es la sexta obra del poeta, crítico, narrador y ensayista, Alejandro Zambra, nacido en Santiago de Chile el año 1975, además de ésta, su tercera...
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Film and Book Review: Les Miserables
by Walker Rowe I cannot watch Les Miserables Again. I just can’t do it. I have seen the movie and read the novel too many times. I know every scene and anguish over what the movie director has left...
View ArticleLa Perla de China
Por Jirad Saragg Anchee Min nació el 14 de enero de 1957 en Shanghái. Es una escritora, fotógrafa, pintora y música China-Estadounidense. Vivió en China hasta 1984. Actualmente vive en USA y China....
View ArticleEverything and More, A Compact History of Infinity
by Walker Rowe David Foster Wallace (DFW) writes in “Everything and More A Compact History of Infinity” that the mathematician Cantor peered at the problem of infinity until it drove him mad. Well,...
View ArticleBooks: The Gay Young Adult Movement
by Brian Rowe thumbnail photo by Guillaume Paumier The 2013 release of David Levithan’s novel Two Boys Kissing marked a huge leap forward for American gay young adult fiction, and it showed how far...
View ArticleThe Column Inch
by Walker Rowe I find that all my years of reading The New Yorker magazine makes all my writing sound like, well, The New Yorker, meaning I write in the long narrative style. It makes one long-winded....
View ArticleTransformative Years
review by Aug Stone Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky imaginatively rids himself of his family demons in his latest memoir/novel, ‘Where The Bird Sings Best’. When visionary...
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Jesse Lee Kercheval, the Ambassador of Uruguayan Poetry
Jesse Lee Kercheval El Hoski Audience Andrea Durlacher America Invertida interview by Chip Livingston photos by Paola Scagliotti Jesse Lee Kercheval, renowned author, professor, editor, and...
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Z213: EXIT
Review by Ilias Bistolas Series: Poena Damni vol. 1 Paperback: 152 pages Publisher: Shoestring Press; 2nd Revised edition (October 18, 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1910323625 As long as a match stays alight. As...
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