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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Friendship Issue
POWER OUTAGE
During a power outage, two best friends make a memory.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Friendship Issue
PAPER DOLLS
A group of children walk onto thin ice
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
NEW YORK FAIRYTALE
A tourist has a one-night-stand in Central Park
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WANG
A tourist in China causes difficulties for a local man.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
WALK LIKE A MAN
After an exhausting week of being a woman I realised that growing up female means we never walk without fear.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
DODGY TICKER
A frank and open treatment of mental health.
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MY MOTHER’S FINGERS
A curt melding of ancestral stories and present experiences.
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Shelter in Place
An artful expression of vulnerability versus violence during isolation.
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Mental Health Month: Awareness Essay on Writing
An urgent and essential essay on bearing up your mental health, shortcomings and all.
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Blunder Construction
I work like this… One foot in and one foot out.
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
The Ferlinghetti On The Left Shoulder
The intersectionality of art as freedom where religion can trap.
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TWICE STOLEN
She didn’t like tea. She wasn’t even sure why she was drinking the murky brew. Except maybe, that it had become their evening custom.
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Rhoda
When I met Rhoda, every bell inside off me started ringing.
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
How fantasy literature and media can benefit our mental health
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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Arts & Culture, Essay Saturday
What Grows in Kangan? Planting the Paracosm in Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is a giant of the late eighties – nominated for the 1987 Booker Prize, it is a combination of several unflinching portraits of humanity ...
Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
The Healthy Desire For Discomfort
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
A “Brilliant Sun”, a “Trap of Bones” – Visions of Pakistan in Moniza Alvi’s -The Country at My Shoulder.
Although it would take me a shameful ten years to realise it, in evoking that disjunct, Alvi’s Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan is a piece of masterful storytelling.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Essay Saturday
The Art of Black Humour
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity of life in our time.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
Just Noise – The Barbarian Thrill of Noise in Music
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: “We believed that music is nothing but organized noise. You can take anything—street sounds, us talking, whatever you want—and make it music by organizing it.
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One Noble Truth — Japan Snapshot
Suffering. All life is subject to it. The first of the four Noble Truths, the shisho-tai.
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