Jacelyn Yap — Excerpt: Such care and attention to detail is common across cultural sites [in Japan], and is best savoured in the moments of stillness.
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January
Bidisha Satpathy — Excerpt: In the mirror, I look like I did in December, with an addition of about seven greying hair.
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The Beard Ban
Roger Chapman — Excerpt: They simply won’t be allowed to have a beard and a moustache at the same time.
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Poems from Bhartrihari’s Shatakatraya (The Three Hundreds)
Translated from the Sanskrit by Louis Hunt — Excerpt: Where else can one find such useless stuff / if not in youth’s ramshackle house?
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Otto’s Obituary
Brian Christopher Giddens — Excerpt: Otto went through two brooms a season, and multiple pairs of jeans due to holes in the knees.