A KKK Kidnapping, The Love Laws, and The Shape of Water
Zoe Jane Patterson weaves together Arundhati Roy’s writing with the film The Shape of Water, to make a commentary about love, race and unspoken social laws.
Notes on Kendrick Lamar, Moby-Dick, and the Margins
A clever, surprising intertextual analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN album and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as tales of outsiders.
Bhupi's Dream: What is World Literature?
"It was the German writer Goethe who coined the term Weltliteratur, but it is the Nepali poet Bhupi Sherchan who compelled me to consider, seriously, the idea of world literature..." writes Chiran Raj Pandey.