Recent Articles in Features
Returning to Franzenfreude: Who's Really Going to Write the Great American Novel? | by Sweetman The debate itself seems to have done far more in the name of literature than in advancing any one literary career. The World According to Kafka | by Theresa Willingham If our times feel Apocalyptic, Kafka tells us, we’ve set that stage. Whitewashing History in Mark Twain | by Sweetman Twain wrote in the vernacular of the time. The derogatory slang use of the n-word in the 1870s is not burdened with the unspeakable weight that it carries in the 21st century. Yet that unspeakable weight is the burden of a society that has to live with the acts and deeds of its predecessors, like it or not. |