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The Falling Leaf Review

Publishing and Contributing Editor Jay Ruvolo

  • * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; a novella
  • * Banana Tree*
  • * Blind Prophet
  • * Blindness and Other Scenes
  • * Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
  • * D’Arc that Brings Light
  • * Death, Angels and the Moon
  • * Ditch Plains Dogs
  • * Falling through Bamboo
  • * Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
  • * Garden Variety
  • * God the Ungodly
  • * God’s Finger to Adam’s
  • * Good Friday Recollection
  • * Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
  • * I Wait for the Rain
  • * Impure Blood [Short Story]
  • * In Itself American
  • * Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
  • * Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
  • * Narrator, Narrated one
  • * Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
  • * The Algerian’s Flowers
  • * The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
  • * Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
  • * Truth is Beauty
  • *Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
  • *Nausea two
  • 33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
  • A Vindication of Gay Marriage
  • A Vindication of Human Rights
  • A Woman Is [short fiction]
  • Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
  • ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
  • Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
  • Amend Our Ways
  • Another Note to the Reader
  • Archipelago Americanus
  • AROUND; A Video Poem
  • Asking
  • Barnum and Obama
  • Bee Hive Nation
  • Before the Law
  • Being Jeffersonian, Thus
  • Betting Window: Voting Booth
  • Beyond the Need for Liberty?
  • Black is Black [fiction]
  • Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
  • Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
  • Capital ‘P’ People
  • Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
  • Choosing to be Human
  • Communicating Communicated
  • Conformity vs. Obedience
  • Consensus, Non-Sensus
  • Cornerstone of Liberty
  • Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
  • Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
  • Diatribe
  • Doppelgänger [short fiction]
  • Double Think Down the Left
  • Duality or Dichotomy
  • Espresso Pot
  • Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
  • Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
  • Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
  • Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
  • Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
  • Fetal Heartbeat
  • Fire and Embrace
  • Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
  • Full of Grace
  • Futilitarianism
  • Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
  • Greed Breeds Greed
  • Guilty versus Not-guilty
  • Hamlet is Cartesian
  • Hamlet My Brother is My Father
  • Hard Times for History and Historiography
  • Human Humane
  • Humanity
  • Humanity is a Monstrosity
  • Humanity is the Thesis
  • Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
  • Hysterical Historical
  • I am We the People
  • I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
  • I Become a Member of the Past Again
  • I is a Delusion
  • I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
  • I Two Myself
  • I Wear Different Haberdash
  • Iceberg, Dead Ahead
  • Idiocy is Pandemic
  • Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
  • In Itself American: Beta
  • In Itself American: Gamma
  • In/Formation
  • Individuality Divisible
  • Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
  • Into the Wild
  • Islam or Illiteracy?
  • Israel and Colonialism
  • JFK and a New Left Legacy
  • JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
  • Journal Entries [fiction]
  • Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
  • Labyrinth and Abyss
  • Last Best Hope?
  • Laughing at the Devil
  • Less Than Kin
  • Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
  • Licenses to Gratify
  • Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
  • Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
  • Literate Being, Being Literate
  • Love is the Soul of Humanity
  • Macrocosmically Me
  • Mammon is God
  • Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
  • Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
  • Media are the Messages
  • MEDIAtion
  • Mediocrity and Success
  • Meekness Humbled?
  • Messages and Media
  • Misconceptions Dis-conceived
  • Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
  • Misguided Understanding of Power
  • Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
  • Monologues and Vision
  • Mules or Men
  • Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
  • Murder and Race
  • My Brother, My Likeness
  • My Pen is My Scalpel
  • Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
  • Nevermind Arithmetic
  • New and Now are Cults
  • New Potential Old [Of Woman]
  • No One Keeps His Balance four
  • Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
  • Of Punching or Not Punching
  • Of Reviewing
  • Of Sex and Sexuality
  • Of Soul and Mind
  • Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
  • On Being Literate
  • On Stage, Off Stage
  • ONDINE; a Video Poem
  • Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
  • Other Questions
  • Passing through the Heart
  • People Versus the State
  • Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
  • Petty Paces
  • Philosophy is Wonder
  • Pimps and Prostitutes
  • Pluralism
  • Police, People and the Public
  • Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
  • Politeness and the New Politique
  • POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
  • Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
  • Prison House of State
  • Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
  • pro Intentions Attended
  • pro Letter to Anonymous
  • pro NOTES to the Reader
  • pro Of Blogging
  • pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
  • pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
  • pro Web Log II
  • pro Writing a Web Log
  • Prophets and Prophecies
  • Public-Minded
  • Purposeful Journey
  • Purposefully without Purpose?
  • Quantity Trumps Quality
  • Question, Philosophical
  • Questions and Demands
  • R.S.V.P.
  • Rain Outside
  • Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
  • Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
  • Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
  • Rhetorical Strategy
  • Rhone Red with Ribs
  • Salvation Now [fiction]
  • Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
  • Seeing Seen Again
  • Sex, Love, Communication
  • Silence is Suicide [fiction]
  • SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
  • SIMPLE; A Video Poem
  • Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
  • Something Less than Democracy
  • Soul is What we Say When
  • Soul of Genius
  • Soul of Genius
  • Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
  • Spy, Spying, Spied
  • Stages; On, Off and Against
  • Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
  • Standing Under
  • State & Stage
  • States are Tautologies
  • Suspension of Disbelief
  • Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
  • TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
  • The ABCs of Literacy?
  • The Coldest Winter
  • The Courage of Oedipus
  • THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018
  • The Good, the Bad and the Literary
  • The Highest Wisdom
  • The Ontological Self
  • The Passing of Democracy
  • The Polemicist, a Short Story
  • The Republic of Silence
  • The State vs. The People
  • The Unalienable Right to Choose
  • There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
  • Through the Glass Darkly
  • To Between or not to Between
  • To Love or not to Love
  • Toward Feminology
  • Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
  • Twenty Million Women
  • Usual Suspects
  • Vanity is Truth
  • Vindication
  • Waiting for Beckett
  • Waiting for Lunch
  • Warnings and Wardens
  • We Are What We Read
  • We, Another Mask
  • Western Review
  • What I Want, What I Get
  • What is She?
  • What Profits the Prophet?
  • What We Are, What I Am
  • When I Write
  • Who Am I vs. What I Am
  • Who’s to Say?
  • Wife, Midwife, Witch
  • William Brian, a Short Story
  • With a Grain
  • Woman Is
  • Written and Revised
  • Yet Another Note to the Reader
  • Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
  • Zionism and the Media
  • Hera’s Tit
  • MEDIA and MESSAGES
  • HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
  • SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
  • The Pool, You Know, the Pool
  • THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
  • What I Learned from Her
  • Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]

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  • pro NOTES to the Reader
  • Usual Suspects
  • Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
  • The Unalienable Right to Choose
  • Double Think Down the Left
  • Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]
  • Woman Is
  • Greed Breeds Greed
  • Israel and Colonialism
  • * Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
  • * God the Ungodly
  • Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
  • Bee Hive Nation
  • Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
  • * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; a novella
  • Labyrinth and Abyss
  • Philosophy is Wonder
  • State & Stage
  • Passing through the Heart
  • Betting Window: Voting Booth
  • Before the Law
  • Pimps and Prostitutes
  • Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
  • New and Now are Cults
  • Archipelago Americanus
  • My Brother, My Likeness
  • With a Grain
  • Licenses to Gratify
  • Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
  • Human Humane
  • Iceberg, Dead Ahead
  • What I Learned from Her
  • MEDIAtion
  • Vindication
  • Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
  • Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
  • States are Tautologies
  • Who’s to Say?
  • Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
  • Idiocy is Pandemic
  • Something Less than Democracy
  • Laughing at the Devil
  • Waiting for Beckett
  • The State vs. The People
  • Futilitarianism
  • Hera’s Tit
  • * The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
  • Question, Philosophical
  • Standing Under
  • Monologues and Vision
  • I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
  • Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
  • * The Algerian’s Flowers
  • Humanity is a Monstrosity
  • To Love or not to Love
  • Of Soul and Mind
  • R.S.V.P.
  • Barnum and Obama
  • Prison House of State
  • Journal Entries [fiction]
  • Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
  • Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
  • In/Formation
  • Fetal Heartbeat
  • Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
  • * God’s Finger to Adam’s
  • Full of Grace
  • Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
  • Mules or Men
  • Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
  • Humanity
  • Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
  • * Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
  • Love is the Soul of Humanity
  • * Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
  • Soul of Genius
  • * I Wait for the Rain
  • * Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
  • Cornerstone of Liberty
  • Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
  • Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
  • I am We the People
  • Questions and Demands
  • Rain Outside
  • The Pool, You Know, the Pool
  • Fire and Embrace
  • Police, People and the Public
  • The Republic of Silence
  • * Garden Variety
  • Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
  • Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
  • I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
  • * Death, Angels and the Moon
  • Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
  • What is She?
  • The Highest Wisdom
  • Hamlet My Brother is My Father
  • Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
  • Last Best Hope?
  • What We Are, What I Am
  • Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
  • Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
  • Public-Minded
  • Petty Paces
  • Twenty Million Women
  • Guilty versus Not-guilty
  • Mammon is God
  • Choosing to be Human
  • Silence is Suicide [fiction]
  • Being Jeffersonian, Thus
  • The Passing of Democracy
  • People Versus the State
  • Wife, Midwife, Witch
  • Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
  • JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
  • Suspension of Disbelief
  • To Between or not to Between
  • Vanity is Truth
  • Politeness and the New Politique
  • Espresso Pot
  • Less Than Kin
  • I Become a Member of the Past Again
  • * Impure Blood [Short Story]
  • No One Keeps His Balance four
  • I is a Delusion
  • Individuality Divisible
  • Pluralism
  • The Polemicist, a Short Story
  • Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
  • Messages and Media
  • JFK and a New Left Legacy
  • Who Am I vs. What I Am
  • Quantity Trumps Quality
  • Diatribe
  • Misguided Understanding of Power
  • Meekness Humbled?
  • Hard Times for History and Historiography
  • Amend Our Ways
  • There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
  • Into the Wild
  • A Vindication of Human Rights
  • Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
  • Murder and Race
  • Of Punching or Not Punching
  • Doppelgänger [short fiction]
  • * Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
  • * Falling through Bamboo
  • Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
  • Zionism and the Media
  • Spy, Spying, Spied
  • pro Writing a Web Log
  • Consensus, Non-Sensus
  • Islam or Illiteracy?
  • Warnings and Wardens
  • We Are What We Read
  • * Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
  • pro Web Log II
  • pro Of Blogging
  • Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
  • Beyond the Need for Liberty?
  • Black is Black [fiction]
  • The Coldest Winter
  • In Itself American: Beta
  • Mediocrity and Success
  • * In Itself American
  • In Itself American: Gamma
  • * Good Friday Recollection
  • Stages; On, Off and Against
  • Duality or Dichotomy
  • Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
  • William Brian, a Short Story
  • Macrocosmically Me
  • On Stage, Off Stage
  • On Being Literate
  • Nevermind Arithmetic
  • I Wear Different Haberdash
  • POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
  • * D’Arc that Brings Light
  • Sex, Love, Communication
  • Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
  • pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
  • Yet Another Note to the Reader
  • pro Intentions Attended
  • Misconceptions Dis-conceived
  • * Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
  • Hamlet is Cartesian
  • * Blindness and Other Scenes
  • 33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
  • Written and Revised
  • Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
  • Literate Being, Being Literate
  • Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
  • pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
  • Western Review
  • The ABCs of Literacy?
  • Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
  • Toward Feminology
  • Purposefully without Purpose?
  • What Profits the Prophet?
  • Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
  • When I Write
  • Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
  • We, Another Mask
  • What I Want, What I Get
  • Communicating Communicated
  • The Good, the Bad and the Literary
  • Rhetorical Strategy
  • *Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
  • Rhone Red with Ribs
  • Purposeful Journey
  • Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
  • Hysterical Historical
  • Prophets and Prophecies
  • pro Letter to Anonymous
  • My Pen is My Scalpel
  • Asking
  • Capital ‘P’ People
  • SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
  • Media are the Messages
  • Of Reviewing
  • Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
  • Another Note to the Reader
  • Of Sex and Sexuality
  • ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
  • Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
  • HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
  • MEDIA and MESSAGES
  • THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
  • SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
  • Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
  • * Blind Prophet
  • * Narrator, Narrated one
  • * Ditch Plains Dogs
  • Waiting for Lunch
  • Through the Glass Darkly
  • A Woman Is [short fiction]
  • Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
  • Conformity vs. Obedience
  • Soul of Genius
  • I Two Myself
  • Other Questions
  • Seeing Seen Again
  • The Ontological Self
  • Soul is What we Say When
  • Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
  • New Potential Old [Of Woman]
  • Salvation Now [fiction]
  • * Truth is Beauty
  • Humanity is the Thesis
  • *Nausea two
  • The Courage of Oedipus
  • Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
  • * Banana Tree*
  • SIMPLE; A Video Poem
  • AROUND; A Video Poem
  • A Vindication of Gay Marriage
  • Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
  • TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
  • ONDINE; a Video Poem
  • Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
  • THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018

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