When the Dystopia Looks Like Home: What “The Truman Show” Warns Us About Our Reality
Unlike classic dystopias such as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, the world of The Truman Show is friendly, colourful, and relentlessly polite.
Recognition Isn’t Justice: Taiwan’s Indigenous People and the Unfinished Promise of Equality
Although Taiwan’s laws recognize Indigenous peoples’ rights, their limited implementation and unequal recognition reveal how legal justice can exist on paper but not in reality. I walk through a Taiwanese…
How First Encounters in Fiction (And In Life) Shape One’s Destiny and Identity
Even the most unremarkable first encounter with another person can leave a profound impression on one’s personality, forming subconscious projections and subtly shaping a connection that might develop in the…
Challenging the Systems of Power through Pop Culture
By Anita Murgulch, student at Taipei European School Popular culture has always been more than entertainment; it reshapes the way we see and interpret the world around us. Alan Watts…
On Embracing the Fantastic in Literature: Coleridge vs. Tolkien
Coleridge´s concept of “willing suspension of disbelief” argues that a reader’s mind can transcend known reality and naturally embrace the impossible in a work of fiction.
Editor’s Picks: Celebrating Women in Translation Month
Our Editor, Sanja Gligoric In August 2020, we celebrated Women in Translation month with a myriad of literary reviews of novels written by remarkable women. This year we’d also like…
About a Boy, Nick Hornby: The book or the film – is that the question?
Discussions about books and film adaptations always seem to divide people. Book-lovers vs. film-lovers. You feel obligated, as if by some social norm, to choose a side and argue in…