Michael Lobban
“I was born above the Grandpass Road,” the narrator sings in “Above the Moving Tree”. Indeed, this short poem is both a song and a hymn that traces...
Exuberantly vicious and purposefully scouring with its elegant vulgarity, “Buckaroo Holiday” is the most athletic of my attempts to capture the twi...
Prompted by the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, “Burnt Offering” was first written in early 2005 shortly after the ne...
Here we encounter Tabish Qasmi and, more specifically, Dr. Christopher Framjee for the first time; two of Mariyam Henze’s unusual companions who bo...
Engaging the Funder (Network Philanth...
Engaging the Funder had been originally planned as a seminal trend study adhering to a different national voice, one much like the milieu in which ...
The European angle, to begin with, is crucial in this assessment of the central thematic context of Failure. As equally important are the potencies...
A Good Society: Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Win
To deepen historical consequence in the mind of western readers, especially in a country as young as the United States, might be an arguable cause ...
“The Portrait of a Lady is [Henry] James's first fully exposed case of human manipulation;” William H. Gass has written, “of what it means to be a ...
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love the writing style and descript words. I can literally see it as I read it. Great job!
Collected for the 11th Annual Boston Review Prize in Poetry Contest, “The Night in Albany” is the anti-hero’s voicemail greeting: candid, unusual, ...
Told as a bizarre and carefully constructed homage to Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground,” the story of one man’s descent into madness reveals a ...
Meet Agha M. Lorenzo Scofi, famous novelist and television producer, middle-aged divorcee, and criminal mastermind. Once a recluse, now a drunk, a ...
The first in a series of abstract poems informed in scale by la lengua de Cervantes. The narrator of “Sex, Calcutta” paraphrases the Prince of Wits...
Collected for the 11th Annual Boston Review Prize in Poetry Contest, “Sex, Damascus” is both a punishing escapade into the vengeful mind of a lover...
Meet Agha M. Lorenzo Scofi, famous novelist and television producer, middle-aged divorcee, and criminal mastermind. Once a recluse, now a drunk, a ...
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