Those of you that make a habit out of turning the pages of a new novel until completion, will get me. You’ll understand the fleeting emotion that starts at your gut and gradually makes its way to that corner of the mind where imagination lingers. I’ve been thinking an awful…
Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature
In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets…
Top Ten Free Visual Novels, Huh What?
The vast majority of the time when I bring up visual novels to someone in conversation, they have no idea what I am talking about. On one level, this floors me. On another level, I expect it. Visual Novels have never been particularly main stream, not even in their country…
Top 10 Most Literary Indie Bands
My favorite things in life are music and books. The only thing I love more is when they cross over. 1) First prize goes to Neutral Milk Hotel. Their counter-culture classic and magnum opus In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a giant love letter to Anne Frank. In an interview with Pitchfork,…
Olympic Sized Complaints…
The recent opening of the 2014 Sochi Olympics has been a controversial one to say the least. Already the most expensive Olympics in history, with an estimated cost of 51 billion dollars, there have been no shortage of infrastructural problems that the Western media has been too eager to…
Top 10 Books to Film
It’s a list for everyone. 1. The Shawshank Redemption Adapted from a Stephen King novella titled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won none of them. But still, what a film. 2. Girl, Interrupted Based off Susanna Keysen’s memoir about…
Focail Sneachta — Words of Snow
Our 2013 print issue of the LRR included a Foreign Literatures section. We purposefully published these pieces—two in Irish (Lisa Nic An Bhreithimh’s piece, “Grá Fómhair”; Alex Fogarty’s poem “Focail Sneachta”) and one in Spanish (Mikel Lorenzo Arza’s “Deola”) —in their native languages with no accompanying translations in order to…
Five Ways to Exercise an Attitude of Gratitude
Posted on behalf of Justis Lopez, Guest Blogger. The holiday season is a time of celebration: it allows us to express our gratitude and to be thankful for what we have in life. While much of the holiday season revolves around gratitude, it can be easily lost and overlooked. Take…
Life After College
You shake the old woman’s hand and walk off stage, looking for your parents in the crowd. They spot you and you smile back at your mom before taking your seat. You know your graduation is just as much her accomplishment as your own. After the ceremony, you kiss your…
Grá Fómhair – Autumnal Love
What better way to celebrate the glorious reds, oranges, and yellows of November—the brisk air, the hot tea, the annual newfound surprise of mittens, scarves, and caps—than with a love story? Our 2013 print issue of Long River Review included a Foreign Literatures section. We purposefully published these pieces—two in…
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