50 years ago today, Irregardless Cafe opened in 1975 in Raleigh , NC.
Category: Criticism
JK Rowling, Transphobia and How to Keep Loving Harry Potter
In the wake of JK Rowling’s comments on sex and gender, it really has become harder to be a Harry Potter fan.
‘Poetry Begins to Atrophy When It Gets too Far from Music’
When Ezra Pound said ‘poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music’, the father of modernism introduced a very traditionalist idea.
‘Anglish’ and the Pursuit of Linguistic Purism
In 1066 the Norman Conquest changed the English language forever. Since then linguists have battled between Latin and Saxon, English and Anglish.
Beautiful Books: How I Met the Boy Who Lived
On my 11th birthday, I began a twofold obsession: an obsession with Harry Potter and an even more treacherous obsession with books.
Absinthe and the Legend of la Fée Verte
Who was the green fairy, what is thujone, and how were the artists of La Belle Epoque captivated by that poison called wormwood and elixir called absinthe?
Dante and the 4 Levels of Literary Interpretation
Dante described 4 levels of interpretation for biblical works, but how do modern works like Star Wars (or the ideas of Coleridge and Tolkien) hold up?
Digital Writers and Editors Need to Know Code
If writers want to blend typography, design and writing, they need an in-depth understanding of digital word processing: its advantages and its constraints.
Part of Speech and Othering
What is the difference between Jews and Jewish people or dwarves and people with dwarfism, and generally who are ‘they’?
Beautiful Books: ‘The Sweet Old Etcetera’
EE Cummings and Allison Clifford invite you to explore the wonders of electronic literature.