In The Name Of My Father
By: Phil Rockstroh On May 1, after a day of May Day activities on the streets and avenues of Manhattan, my wife and I and a troop of other OWS [...]
Category Archives: Prose
Literary Articles & Essays
Seven Problems of Teaching English as a Second Language
The following notes are merely my own informal observations from several years of teaching ESL. The problems mentioned below certainly do not apply to every ESL school in the world; [...]
We Need More Poets
Writer Don DeLillo once wrote that reading poetry makes us conscious of breathing. I can’t imagine a better way to put it. The first time I fell in love, really [...]
The Death of English
Bad English is the surest sign that we have reached the end of civilization. The following are not statements about descriptive versus prescriptive English. They are about the decline in [...]
A Place to Live
Although I’ve built one or two log cabins over the years, I suppose that way of life isn’t something I’ll go back to any more, especially since I’m already 62 [...]
The Song of the Whistling Thrush
Come to think of it, we have known each other for over thirty, thirty- five years! That is a very long time indeed. We speak of each generation in terms [...]
Nostalgia For The Stone Age
It is sometimes said that the most important event in the development of mankind was not the transition from the Stone Age to civilization, but rather from the Paleolithic (the [...]
The Young
Young men and dreamers, young women, bold and beautiful—be joyous in your frolic and meditations. Beside the smiling of your sunlit fields the shadow of death glowers. Do not fall [...]
The Timeless Joy of George Whitman’s Shakespeare & Company
Never doubt that simple acts of generosity and solidarity can change lives—and the world. George Whitman and his Shakespeare & Company bookstore have been uniquely powerful living proof of that. [...]
Does India Rock?
Has the spirit of the 60s finally arrived in India ? Is the new economic order set to liberate our libidinal economies too? Are we at last graduating into the [...]
