Michael Smith — Excerpt: Being in the suburbs, we got to see regular Japanese life, rather than the tourist’s view.
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Through Tea, Forest and Mist: Exploring the Dooars
Anasuya Basu — Excerpt: A road trip through the Dooars in the winter month of January not only invigorates with its crisp, chilly wind and clear skies, but also fills the senses with its vistas of mountains, mist, and lush tea gardens.
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The Meta-Eco in Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God
Alka Balain — Excerpt: The Hour of God opens with a sacred invocation to wholeness from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, and this invocation sets the tone of the collection.
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A Joycean Romp through Belfast: Hanna Nielson’s Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Mark Mullan — Excerpt: Hanna Nielson’s debut is a joyous Joycean romp through a single wintery night in post-Troubles Belfast that asks: If all of life is a play, do we write our own lines?
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Toilet Spider
Sadie Kaye — Excerpt: It was like all my phobias had decided to get together and have a child.