New Orpheu – Issue No. 3

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  • Spark in the Void

    Edvard Munch – Behind The Scream by Sue Prideaux

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  • The Governed Speak

    Governance in a democracy rests on a covenant requiring daily renewal. An endorsement of a candidate electorally one day does not equal complete freedom of action the next. It is an approval by the franchised to allow an individual into a place of power. Extrapolating an election into a free hand is the position of…

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  • Fire in the Outback

    When waves collide.

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  • Testify

    Not your average Marian apparition

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  • Living to die

    There’s an inherent issue for any author who boldly proclaims their entry into the novel form with a literal exclamation point and a one word title like Martyr! The Bible got there first.

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  • January 21st, 2025: Home Again

    As I type this I am home and on the road to recovery. The end of 2024 and start of 2025 had been one long sequence of pain and misery without reason. One last Hail Mary round of testing finally led to a diagnosis and an identified cure. Predictably, that solution will be long in…

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  • Min Kamp Against Knausgård

    So Much Longing in So Little Space is a test to see how far a title can carry a book. Do combinations of words get any better than that? This is Karl Ove Knausgård at both his best and his worst. What is refreshing about his writing is how apparently upfront he is about his…

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  • Han Kang & the Expanding Nobel Net

    Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week. While I’ve not had the pleasure of reading her work just yet, her success is another sign of the expanding horizons of world literature. She is the first Korean Literature laureate, the first female laureate from her nation, the first female laureate from…

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  • October 5th, 2024: “Brian” by Jeremy Cooper

    A novel for the film buffs, the average art enthusiast, and those whose experience with cultural artifacts goes beyond the ephemeral into the all-encompassing. The premise is that of a Northern Irish man, Brian, who leads a solitary life in London, working for a local town council. He is not particularly noteworthy to those around…

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  • October 1st, 2024: Almost Always Better (Almost Always Worse)

    I’ve a combative relationship with math rock. Bips and beeps and zoinks whirling around in an intellectualized insult to the traditional mores of songwriting with an ethos of, “If you can fit it in any time signature, it’ll do,” can be objectively admired without being appealing. That the tunings and guitar tones habitually register up…

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