Issue 58

‘Lesbos’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note The question is, who has not translated the censored poems from Charles Baudelaire’s…

‘The head of an imaginary bird’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Only innocents or the desperate can speak as directly to the root of…

Five Ghazals

Editor's Note It is not the protest in Hamdam Kashmiri’s poems, but the cool flair…

‘Sold Out’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note The limits of what can be said safely do shift--- from era to…

‘People at Night’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Though many Rilke quotes are now ubiquitous in popular culture, fragments can not…

Death In Etawah

Editor's Note In fiction, the narrator’s perspective guides what the reader perceives. A child narrator…

Banana Bag Lady

Editor's Note In fiction, a hospital ward is one of those spaces that forces strangers…

The Year In Review

Editor's Note J. J. Graham’s unassumingly titled story ‘The Year in Review’ is, on the…

On The Ashtamudi

Editor's Note In the tradition of Bildungsroman narratives that have come before, Saudha Kasim’s story…

Arthur Hallam’s Remains Are Delivered By Boat

Editor's Note We outlive death to the extent we live in the memory of those…