Drunk With Love
by“Drunk With Love”, by Rana Farhan, magnificently mesmerizes with style, and an abundant beauty. Based on a poem by Rumi, the words of an…
February, 2014
Persian Tattoos
byTattooing among Persians, especially among gypsies and nomads, goes back as far as the 19th century. In Iran, it was common for upper class…
Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly
byThe opening in Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly”, is reminiscent of Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies (2010): a playful group of friends turns out to…
It is Sung in Yellow
byDon’t listen to my voice, it is sung in yellow Don’t touch my heart, it’s sick with coldness Don’t get close to my soul,…
The Rise of the Single Dad
byCaroline Kitchener in The Atlantic Today, more men than ever are making the same choice. A Pew Research study published this statistic this summer:…
Writers Into Saints
byTim Parks in The New York review of the Books Over the last ten years or so I have read literary biographies of Dickens,…
Blue Melancholia is Approaching
byIt’s not about death, or the end drawing near. It’s not about love or hate among sisters, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters or husbands and…
Poet of the Caribbean- Derek Walcott
byTeju Cole in Sunday Book Review, The new York Times “Writing poetry is an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote. “It takes skill to…
Why is Academic Writing so Academic
byJoshua Rothman in The New Yorker A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my…
A Day in the Life of the Ku Klux Klan
by“Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!” These words are the first, one sees…