Tag: september 2024
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“The Chinese Dragon in Our Pond” by Lu Xu (Orion’s Belt Fiction 2024)
It was a humid summer day, and if grandfather was still with us, we’d be eating lychee in the kitchen while he smoked a cigarette. But his seat at the table had been empty for a week now, and to distract my brother, I let him catch cicadas and play in the pond. This is…
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“Every Story is a Teacher” by Joshua Fagan (Orion’s Belt Essay – September 2024)
There is a quote I particularly like from H.W. Garrod, an early twentieth-century literary critic: “What we resent in didactic poetry is not that it teaches, but that it does not teach, its incompetency.” Garrod perhaps came to this conclusion while studying Keats, whose writings he examined quite closely. Keats, in a letter to a…