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  • Culture - Literature - Society - Weekly Features

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    So much depends upon this red wheelbarrow. But Williams never tells us what depends on it or why. He trusts us to understand.

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  • Culture - Literature - Society - Weekly Features

    Reading Shafak in a Burning World: The Art of Storytelling

    14 December 2025

    Panchami — Excerpt: What began as reading ‘about’ the region transcended into reading ‘from’ the region. Shafak’s work was a beacon, my entry into literature from West Asia.

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  • Craft - Culture - Literature - Sports - Weekly Features

    The Sports Writing Voice That Has Stuck with Me the Most: Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World”

    29 December 2024

    Matthew Johnson — Excerpt: Angelou is not just telling the play-by-play of an ordinary sporting event; she invites her readers to experience it.

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  • Culture - Literature - Weekly Features

    Writing Against Oblivion

    8 December 2024

    J.D. Isip — Excerpt: If we are honest, we all want to be ghosts.

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  • BOTN - Culture - Literature - Nominations - Weekly Features

    “Self-Portrait of My Father as James Baldwin Reading Me Notes of a Native Son” by I Echo

    29 September 2024

    Best of the Net 2025 Nomination: CNF Category — Originally published on 5 May 2024 in THR Weekly Features

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