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A Review of Praisesong for the Widow
For Avey Johnson, the protagonist in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, typical travel advisories are ill-equipped to outline the anguish and awakening she encounters...
Elsewhere: A Reminder to Write Down Our Stories
I know I’m about to read a good travel story when it starts out with the unearthing of old, dusty journals. I know this because...
The Littoral Truth: The Granite Kingdom and Coast of Teeth
Where we live helps to frame our identity – it is not the only factor, but it is a significant influence on our language, our...
Book Review: Ingrid Rojas Contreras's The Man Who Could Move Clouds
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Doubleday 2022) by Ingrid Rojas Contreras charts new territory in its genre by allowing for profound uncertainties...
Point Omega Renditions: A Book Review
Someone told me once that he’d read Point Omega by Don DeLillo with interest, but couldn’t connect with it. ‘Pointless,’ is how he described it....
The Space In Their Lives I Had Left Behind
“… you remained misunderstood because you could not speak the language well enough. One learned to accept the frustration of not being able to express...
Book Review: The Shards
In the 594 pages of The Shards, the enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis inhabits an excessive amount of space to recount a ‘fusion of fact...
Book Review: The Passenger
Infinity. Can’t be drawn. Can’t be said. Can’t be imagined. Couldn’t be grasped even if you could blindly feel around its edges. But it’s there....
Map of Hope and Sorrow: In Conversation with Helen Benedict
I recently chatted with Helen Benedict about her latest book, MAP OF HOPE AND SORROW, co-authored with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, an in-depth...
Book Review: All The Honey
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, San Miguel County Colorado’s first poet laureate and Western Slope Colorado Poet Laureate, is a contemplative, committed, insightful poet. After dedicating more...
A Stranger at Home: An Essay on Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland
On reading Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, I find myself thinking about the notion of being a stranger at home, negotiating places you are supposed...
Hoja And His Shadow: Deconstructing Orhan Pamuk's White Castle
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk is a mystifying tale of confused identity, self-reflection, and a world caught between two versions of itself. More than...
Breakfast for Alligators
From Tipped Hat Press comes a staggering explosion of travel through the Americas, a collection of 32 information-packed essays by traveller, essayist, and blogger, Darrin...
Book Review: An unreliable guide to London
Lord Kitchener, the late Trinidadian calypsonian, arrived in England on the Empire Windrush in 1948, with several songs in his back pocket. Kitchener, a then...