Volume I, Issue II
“The face is our most potent symbol of personality,” wrote Mina Loy in the opening [...]
Just at the centre of our vision, yet subconsciously ignored, the nose is one of [...]
To say that a poet, of any kind, might avoid being canonized is perhaps to [...]
Her face weary and wary, the mother stands with her one foot hoisted onto a [...]
I lift the white sheet And uncover the dead face, White among the white roses, [...]
A generation ago, I was preparing to leave Canada to start my graduate program at [...]
The 36-year-old Anglo-American writer Susan Ertz began a late career as a novelist in 1923 [...]
Between 1914 and 1918, American heiress Mary Borden bankrupted herself to establish a field hospital [...]
In 1919, when the exclamatory love poem “Mineself——Minesoul——and——Mine——Cast-Iron Lover” first appeared in the Little Review [...]
In the scholarship on interwar Scottish modernist literature, Claire Spencer is a completely forgotten writer. [...]
Today, Pamela Colman Smith is primarily remembered for designing the storied 1909 tarot deck that [...]
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani was born in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents in 1909. When he [...]
In a letter to his friend, Romana Halpern, in mid–February 1938, Polish–Jewish author Bruno Schulz [...]
Among the well-rehearsed names of literary modernists, that of Andrei Bely is not often invoked, [...]
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