A double-sided interview with @readbyhelen_ on literature, the online book community, literary connection.  A few weeks ago, we had the...

It's been two years today since I last saw you, since I breathed in your scent, since I lost myself in your waves. I don’t know if you...

I was five years old when I first watched Disney's Cinderella (1950), and it was one of the most magical moments of my life. The way that...

The truth is often filthy and likes hiding under the floorboards. “So, I was sittin in me chair, the pub’s filled to the brim with...

In her novel Dans le Jardin de l’Ogre  ( In the Ogre’s Garden ), Leila Slimani portrays Adèle, an upper-middle-class bourgeois woman...

The Map of Hell, Boticelli. The poem opens with the famous line: “Midway upon the journey of our life.”  For centuries, literature has...

INTRODUCTION  Dante’s Divine Comedy famously starts with the line “Midway upon the journey of our life”, the signature quote that we...

In a land unknown, having walked for a thousand cities,  I found myself walking through a forest filled with memories.  Night fell down,...

images, images, images all around me are images is this all i’m created for?  is this all that i’m made for?  a spy, a gun, a fight, a...

It was a typical Friday morning— 10 a.m. to be exact—in the city's Orthodox church. As usual, the room was prepared for one of the most...