Messy Jesse
Please note: An audio recording of this poem is available below the jump. The poem is read by the author. Enjoy. - The Editor. That's just messy, Jesse, You are not Kanye, Though, your rhymes Are on...
Category: Arts & Literature
Mirror of the Arab World: a review
This is a review of Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict by Sandra Mackey. W. W. Norton. 2008. For more, please see Jonathan Mok's interview with the author. Why has the curse of...
Makotai, Ancient Jews, and a 2500-year-old ship: globalization in an ancient world
YaleGlobal, the magazine of the Yale University Centre for Study of Globalization, describes globalization as a historical process that began with the first movement of people out of Africa into...
The Revenge, The Final Price
This is the final chapter of thirteen-year-old Chloe Bradshaw's dark tale. For the previous installment, click here. As I looked at my father's murderer, the feeling of fear subsided and was overcome...
Eating fish and sanyasa: Vivekananda’s travels in Travancore
The other day, I came across a very interesting document - an account of Swami Vivekananda’s visit to Thiruvananthapuram in December 1892. It was written by K Sundarama Iyer, a senior officer in...
Chasing the Flame: a review
This is a review of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power. Allen Lane, 2008. Most United Nations officials do not make for engrossing literary...
Amusement from Insipid Places
When I was younger I would ask people the following question: If you could be immortal and all you had to do was chop off the head of the person you most love, would you do it? Most people would look...
She Will Come
Please note that an audio recording of the poem is available below She will come Oh, yes! She will come. If I have to sprain an ankle, She will come, she will come. She makes like she won't, but that...
1948: a review
This is a review of 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris. Yale University Press. 2008. In 1980's, a group of Israeli historians including Tom Segev of Haaretz (a daily Israeli newspaper),...
The Revenge, Finding the Pirate
The previous installment of 13-year-old Chloe Bradshaw's dark take can be found here. “I seek information,” Luke told the vampire before him.“I wish to know the whereabouts of a pirate.”...