Marcela Sulack
An unpredictable Sojourner
by Marcela Sulak
A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt. An African Memoir As its title promises, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir is an excursion into an unfamiliar world and the mysterious aphorisms and proverbs employed there. It is both a personal … Read More
Beachside Blues
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, when Leo Tolstoy’s terminally ill protagonist suddenly realizes that his life has been “most simple and commonplace—and most horrifying,†a new subject matter enters Western literature. The meaninglessness and emptiness of life have since … Read More
Indiana, Lipstick, and Algebra
The University of Wisconsin Press 80 pages, $24.95 The gates to the world of professional poetry publication, unlike those to the world of professional fiction or nonfiction publication, are almost constantly guarded by a three-headed beast called The First Book … Read More