Rishika Aggarwal: on poetry and being a self-published poet

I think we’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savannah or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem. –Lucille Clifton I stumbled into poetry by accident. […]

Vidya Premkumar: on teaching literature

Literature today presents itself as that elusive, satisfying, cool profession. “You’re an author? That’s cool.” “I want to do something creative, like write,” have become cool catchphrases with a generation saturated with their mundane corporate jobs. But what most people fail to notice is that the world of literature is so much like a job […]

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

Think of Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House as a travelling theatre and a mobile culture library, situated primarily in the Macdougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District or simply the Gardens, and making interim stops at the rest of New York and Bombay. Or Think of the narrative as a collective dream coming crashing down, a dream the […]