AUTHORS FOR A NEW AGE
=By= Gaither Stewart A bit of Lenin before breakfast gives you the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard. (My adaptation of a Paul Bowles’ Arab adage) (Rome) Il signore Drin Drin, Capri fishermen called Lenin in 1910 and 1912 when the revolutionary and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya visited the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in […]
=By= Gaither Stewart just read the novel, EUPHORIA, by the young American writer, Lily King, a TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2014, published by Grove Press, New York. Readers of this article do not have to worry; this is not to be a dry a book review. Instead, I have permitted myself to […]
=By= Gaither Stewart A chasm separates The People from their rulers, the corporate state. ictionaries relate the word mimesis, of ancient Greek origin, to imitation, representation, mimicry, similarity, or the act of resembling. Today, mimesis is most often related to literary and societal functions.
=By= Gaither Stewart Where do human rights come from? Who decides which laws are just? Do other humans like myself decide what our rights are and which laws are just laws? Or is there a source superior—nature and morality—to which oppressed humanity can turn for justice
=By= Gaither Stewart “Any nation’s victory against imperialism is our victory, as any defeat is also our defeat.”
=By= Gaither Stewart I think of the modern citizen who knows that he is at the mercy of a vast machinery of officialdom whose functioning is directed by authorities that remain nebulous to the executive organs, let alone to the people they deal with. Walter Benjamin (1892- 1940 in Illuminations, in reference to Franz Kafka’s […]
=By= Gaither Stewart he Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor of The Greanville Post, of which I am an editor, have informed me that I now have my own column on our satellite site, Punto Press, the literary (press) arm of The Greanville Post Group. Punto Press is also the publisher of several of my books, […]