The plan was to deliver a standard Q&A advice column containing the rest of your Qs. But then my NGL data disappeared along with my access to your dilemmas and those plans to share my As, which wouldn’t have happened if I had someone to warn me. The post Lessons Learned From Life Lived appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

Like with a trip to a museum, it is unlikely that a reader can digest all of Momento’s content in one go, nor is it necessarily ideal to try. However, Donaldson’s work does inspire return visits; on my read-through, my copy ended up full of bookmarks as I moved through the various sections and marked off passages to come back to again. The post Review: Momento: On Standing in Front of Art by Jeffery Donaldson appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

The slow death of Hanahaki disease is meant to be a manifestation of the overwhelm of love, a progression of the colloquial language that we have, for decades, been building to describe this indescribable feeling. Lovesick. Butterflies in your stomach. All of that. It’s not pleasant language. It’s not supposed to be. The post In Sickness and In Health: Memories from the Time of Hanahaki Disease in Fanfiction appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

Mortification is the defining emotion of my childhood. I don’t mean to say I was unhappy, but I think it’s true that the psychological impact of mortification (by which I mean a kind of lingering, self-inflicted embarrassment) is uniquely acute. The post Self-mortification: Why I just can’t stop embarrassing myself appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

Sitting between 150 and 200 pages (depending on the edition) with fourteen essays, Dinner on Monster Island does not overstay its welcome. The post Review: <em>Dinner on Monster Island</em> by Tania De Rozario appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

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To reiterate my thesis in the plain English of the internet: the advent of the web coincided with what could have been a brief global hegemony of the English language, but its ravenous thirst for content perpetuated the conditions of its spawn. The post Lingua Anglica: An English Empire at the End of History appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

The Leftover Woman embraces a range of topics with great emotional weight, including motherhood, adoption, abuse, and the hostility of the United States to undocumented immigrants, all of which together do make a reader truly hope for a kind resolution... The post Review: The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

Even though Whereabouts validated my pessimism around the impact of these diasporas in recent works of Indian fiction, Ghosh’s Gun Island, in an intrinsically antonymous manner, enthralled me with adoration for works set in India. The post A Brief Critique in Comparison: Lahiri’s Whereabouts vs Ghosh’s Gun Island appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more

American literature is littered with writers aping Hemingway, but instead of creating a purposeful and precise piece, they compile a redundant series of descriptions and lifeless imagery that hardly achieve anything. Marianne Micros’ prose is not following in that tradition but despite the wealth of ideas, in its simplicity, it lacks personality or a distinct voice. The post Review: Marianne Micros’ Statue appeared first on Acta Victoriana ..read more