The Rang Yan Review is a literary and philosophical journal of critical thought, culture, and human solidarity.

Antigua, 1974: a young Chicagoan reading Asturias meets Porfirio, who lives under the portals of the Parque Central. The friendship ends in gifts, a beating, and a question that has lasted fifty years...

on wealth vs labor and ownership vs effort

Never-before-seen journal entries spanning forty years of Annie Ernaux’s life.

He was born at Edgewater Hospital in December 1952, the Second Son, to a twenty-six-year-old immigrant mother who had passed through Ellis Island in 1951. Born in Galanta, she survived Auschwitz and

Nonfiction: by Dion Dennis

Music as a Brass Bell falling into the Sea Before she left, you thought you’d understood music. But really you hadn’t. You learned this in Greece when you watched a giant brass bell plunge into the…

Before telling my mother of my plans to visit Faslane Peace Camp, I planned a defence of them, in case she protested that I was not yet old enough to make such a trip alone. I would first attack Tr…

"Gimme Shelter" by Dion Dennis — Across The Margin

On that Christmas morning, he was alone in a small, dim apartment on the southern edge of Mill Avenue, about two miles from the sprawling, rose-hued buildings of Arizona State University. His second w...

minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opinio…