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Stanzas for social change: Christen Malloy on poetry and activism Christen Malloy (Courtesy of Malloy) Poetry is a powerful form of protest. From the women’s suffrage and environmental movements to civil rights and Black Lives Matter, poetry has been a rallying cry for justice that electrifies and unites crowds. For hundreds of years, poets have wielded language to give a voice to the oppressed, speak truth to power and demand social change. At the University of Colorado Boulder, where activi...

By Michael Dargaville Benevolent and loving human aliens (ETs) have stressed we cannot join their organisation until a world government has been formed in western China’s Sichuan Province. These aliens called the Galactic Federation, who are comprised 60% of human aliens/ETs and who are our ancestors, have surrounded our planet since the start of this century urging official ET truth. They came en masse in the year 2000 to destroy negative reptilian aliens called Reptoids who had a giant psyc...

His taboo-breaking artwork was filled with sex, violence and savage humor, and inspired cartoonists including his friend Robert Crumb.

1 Anoxic waters are areas depleted of which dissolved gas?2 In the Hitchcock film Psycho, which character dresses up as his late mother Norma?3 Subtitled Which Was a Dream, which 1986 Kathy Acker

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...

His father was a drinker – by his 40s, Jim had sworn off drugs, alcohol, tobacco and even coffee – who nonetheless taught his son a lesson that dominated Jim’s life: “When you do something nice for somebody, forget it immediately. When someone does something nice for you, never forget it.” This led to tolerance of all kinds of people – one of Haynes’s books (with Jeanne Pasle-Green) was called Hello, I Love You (1974). He claimed that his ambition was to have everyone in the world...

Hervé Guibert began writing To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life in the last week of 1988; he has just been diagnosed with AIDS but is convinced he can survive. He plots the novel against the uncertain coordinates of this new virus: “I have a sense of the structure of this new book I’ve been harbouring within myself all these last weeks, but I don’t know how it will unfold in its entirety; I can imagine several endings, all of which fall for the moment under the heading of premonition...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, among several others, this star-studded period piece was exactly the sort of entertaining revisionist history that only Tarantino could make, and it became another critical and commercial darling for the famous filmmaker. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and it won two, for Best Production Design and Best Supporting Actor for Pitt. Fo...

Share: Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper Diarmuid Hester The idea of a transgressive writer is a bit hard to fathom in the current moment, but that’s precisely what Dennis Cooper was. In the 1980s and ’90s, he rose to counterculture fame with his brilliant, d...

Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)   Editor This year, Im keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere. Daniel Tunnard s  Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final ...