Chinese mythology was never conveniently collected. Hesiod, with a Greek’s passion for systematizing, and Ovid, with a Roman’s passion for history, synthesized their peoples’ visionary explorations into linear narratives. Few…
Classics & Mythology
Fenrir
Do you want to know when the killing started? Of course you do. It didn’t start right away. On last week of May, the students in my old neighborhood would…
Fast Times at San Guo High: a Visit to Erica Friedman of Yuricon
There’s a high probability you have seen Guan Yu, the hero from the classic Chinese novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a Chinese restaurant, on a shelf over…
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Poetry
The Archaeologist There was weight in the way she spoke the word.Pot, she said. Pot.It had echo, presence – solidity —the syllable on her steady lip:Pot. Off-white symmetrical labyrinth bands…
Robyn Hitchcock Interview
Robyn Hitchcock, attended Winchester College (alma mater to 1890’s decadent poet Lionel Johnson), followed by art school, from which he emerged to found the bands The Soft Boys in the…
The Sphinx
The Sphinx was first printed in 1894 in a limited edition, one year before Wilde’s trial. Wilde was then a celebrity, at the height of his arrogance and impudence, and…
