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Women’s Bodies and Institutions: Christmas as a Catalyst in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These Review by Natalie van den Berg “This story is dedicated to the women and children who suffered time in Ireland’s mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries.” With the narration of this line from the dedication in the novella, oneContinue reading

Charming Oh William! Review by Ryan Dougherty Taken at first reading, Oh William! is more like a charming painting than a novel. Here, a kitchen and over there a living room. Of course, there are people, too. And as we delve into the painting, we see that perhaps not everything is as charming as theContinue reading

Introduction: Surfacing / Resurfacing By Jared Meijer and Kenau Bester What is silence? Something of the sky in us.There will be evidence, there will be evidence.Let them speak of air and its necessities. Whatever they will open, will open. Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Such Is The Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air” TheContinue reading

I am everything: Literature Crossing Ethnical and Sexual Borders Feature by Dick Hogeweij I am half Surinamese and half Groninger, my ancestors came from China and France, I love men, I am brown and have blue eyes, a Dutch mother and a Surinamese father. This is the way Raoul de Jong introduces himself in aContinue reading

The Real Love Story in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Review by Anna Mangnus Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s newest novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a beautifully atmospheric novel that follows the coming of age of Carlota Moreau, though the driving force of the novel is Carlota’s effort to keep Yaxaktun – the hacienda where sheContinue reading

Can Noah Can’t Even Even Be Talked About? Feature by Maria Teresa Cattani How does literary freedom function in a school with a specific, defined identity? Are restrictions logically, morally and ethically justifiable? Lately, this discussion has been all over the internet regarding different cases. This article will focus on a case that tookContinue reading

Not Excluding People from the Picture: An Exploration of Human Kindness in Small Things Like These Review by Susi Westerveld The saying don’t judge a book by its cover doesn’t apply to me, for it is precisely the covers of books that draw me to them. This also counts for Claire Keegan’s novel Small ThingsContinue reading

Only Two Questions at Three in the Morning: A Review of No One is Talking About This Review by José Dorenbos Last summer I bought Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This on a whim, while wandering through a bookstore on one of the hottest days of the year. I was wearing a dressContinue reading

The Other Child: Witnessing Chronic Illness Creative Criticism by Jared Meijer The Other Child When she was eight, Alice found her mother collapsed on the kitchen floor. By age ten, she and her mother shared a diagnosis, that of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or ME. “I remember feeling almost pleased with my diagnosis, even if IContinue reading

’Maybe Love and Loneliness Are Not that Different After All’: A Dialogue about Klara and the Sun Creative Criticism by Aristi Makrygiannaki 1 “Have you started reading Klara and the Sun?” “Well… no, to be honest.” “Come on, why? You love Ishiguro’s stories, and I got it for you because I really wanted us toContinue reading