Big Ideas
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.
What’s a Manuel Ferreira? Book Excerpt from The Prison Lady
Phyllis Taylor is the author of The Prison Lady, a memoir of her journey alongside prisoners. The following is an excerpt from her book. By 45, Manny, a great-looking Portuguese career criminal, had spent two dimes (ten year sentences) in the Kingston Pen. He was fond of boasting that
What’s a Manuel Ferreira? Book Excerpt from The Prison Lady
Phyllis Taylor is the author of The Prison Lady, a memoir of her journey alongside prisoners. The following is an excerpt from her book. By 45, Manny, a great-looking Portuguese career criminal, had spent two dimes (ten year sentences) in the Kingston Pen. He was fond of boasting that
Who Gets to Tell the Story of the Holocaust?
By Leah Eichler I wrote a rather dismissive book review for a The Globe and Mail in Canada in 2002 on a novella called I
Holmes is Where the Heart Is
By Robert Basler, “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” The librarian knew me
A Love Letter to All Women (and Men)
By Rita Jane Gabbett This is a cautionary tale for all the women I love, which, as it turns out, includes all women. It might
Can an Artist be Happy? Arizona O’Neill has Some Thoughts
(Caption: ARIZONA: Do you think authors are responsible for exposing the dark side of society? HEATHER: I don’t think any subject is dark to a
Shock & Awe, Excerpt from Junkyard Girl
On November 22, Carlyn Montes De Oca appeared on Esoterica’s podcast to discuss her memoir, Junkyard Girl. In it, she relates how, at 57, she
French Actor Clementi’s Prison Memoir “Not a Warning, but a Wailing”
By Jean Marc Ah-Sen Pierre Clėmenti, the enigmatic French actor and director whose roles in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, Luis Buñuel’s Belle De Jour, and
A Dublin Fall in Fall
By Maddalena Beltrami In that brief moment of twilight, where the thoughts are as random and as powerful as can be, I think I have
Songs and the Seeping Sadness
By Robert Basler Come and sit by my side if you love me, do not hasten to bid me adieu, but remember the Red River
Ivan Baidak: Moving from Self-Inflicted Invisibility to Visibility
By Diane Bracuk (In)visible— An (in) sider’s look at living with visible disabilities by award-winning Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak. A year ago, many people would
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.