The Artful Masochist: Review of The Iceland by Sakutarō Hagiwara — Patrick...
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942) Hagiwara’s poems are urbane, bereft of the naturalism and flora which had so typified Japanese poetry over the centuries, and full of human emotion. What is subtle or...
View ArticlePrimitivisms: (Paradoxically) On Modernism — Genese Grill
Emil Nolde, Masks (still life III), 1911. Nolde was a member of Die Brücke, a group of German “wild” Expressionists. . Because they couldn’t help but find what they were looking for, it might not be...
View ArticleThe Matter of the Orgasm: Short Story — Michael Bryson
Michael Bryson & friend There was the matter of the orgasm. Years later he suddenly remembered. She hadn’t been the first, but she was the first on a regular basis. She wanted him, and he wanted...
View ArticleConversion: Ontological & Secular from Plato to Tom Jones | Essay — Wayne J....
Beatrice, Gustave Doré Wayne Hankey . “I declare that to recommend Goodness and Innocence hath been my sincere Endeavour in this History. The honest Purpose you [his Patron] have been pleased to think...
View ArticleNuméro Cinq at the Movies | The Full Monty: Notes on Narrative Form — Douglas...
The Full Monty (script by Simon Beaufoy — he won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009; director Peter Cattaneo) tells the story of a group of unemployed Sheffield (UK) factory workers who hit upon...
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