Book Review: Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek

“Poetry,” one of my literature professors had said long ago in class, “is about mixed emotions.” She was talking about Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” a short poem loaded with both positive and negative imagery and invoking both happy and frightening emotions. But she could’ve been talking about any great poem, and not just poems… Continue reading Book Review: Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek

Erotic Literature: The Diary of a Chambermaid

After finding and losing eleven jobs in two years, Célestine, a domestic maid, took a new position in the country. In an effort to understand her failure to find stability, as she began working for Isidore and Euphrasie Lanlaire, she purchased a diary to record her daily life and reflections of her personal history. In… Continue reading Erotic Literature: The Diary of a Chambermaid