Brexit overdubs of Michael Drayton’s 1611 sonnet sequence Idea, by Robert Sheppard VIII He can’t take it with him when he’s gone but the funeral bill will make it look that way. The leavers are leaving life: the remainers must Read More …

Nitzan Lebovic                    January 2019 When thinkers and authors of Franz Kakfa’s time referred to his political-prophetic quality, they usually pointed out to the paranoid quality he gave to society, and its ensuing violence. They did so in two opposite ways. In the 1920s-30s, Read More …

Huub van Baar           February 2019 Some news does not reach the world easily, if at all, while other news does, seemingly without effort. News regarding racist attacks on Roma usually belongs to the former category, while news highlighting their alleged asocial Read More …

Nick Sciullo                February 2019 August Wilson’s 1985 play Fences, recently made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, uses fences as a metaphor for separation, difference, and even self-loathing.[1] This play highlights both the material separation caused by fences, the Read More …