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Remembering the Destroyed Past: Everything Flows Review Pelican2 May 2019 Content Warning: Genocide, Holodomor, Famine, Stalinism Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman is a 1964 historiographical fiction about the wake left behind af... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments82 views
The Most Problematic Tropes in Young Adult Literature Pelican10 April 2019 *warning - spoilers ahead* “Okay? Okay.” – Augustus and Hazel, The Fault in our Stars “Remember we’re madly in love, so it’s alright to kiss m... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments5081 views
Truth through Mediation: Reading Fiction with Dickinson and Hegel Pelican5 April 2019 The great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson once wrote that one should “Tell the truth but tell it slant,” an initially deceiving statement that n... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments99 views
The Short Story: Arriving in Perth Pelican26 February 2019 Getting out of that cushioned chair was like easing out of five hours of inertia; the old fellow next door had begun rising up from a dream, seven-eighths subme... Literature and Creative Writing0 Comments75 views
Love Letter to Willagee Pelican25 August 2018 How many fucking parks do you need? Literature and Creative WritingVoice0 Comments302 views