When I was still a psychology major I took an English class one semester and on the first day the professor started explaining literary theory and how different schools of criticism worked

(this was before they checked prereqs as thoroughly and you could just walk into an upper-level class)

INTERVIEW: Jayinee Basu, author of Asuras

Jayinee Basu is a Calcutta-born writer, translator, and poet whose debut book of…

Rusted-out Cultural Roots

I’ve lately been struck by the staggering beauty of the music video for Rusted Root’s 1995 song, “Send Me on My Way.” And at the risk of saying what has already been said by so many, so many times, I want to point out that the nineties were a simpler time. Granted, in 1995 I was…