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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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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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  • Culture - Literature - Weekly Features

    Unstable Bodies: Poetry’s Longing For Future

    15 September 2024

    Jayant Kashyap — Excerpt: The poet can only not limit this expanse of poetry: they can give directions to this expanse, but not limit it — that’s the beauty of it.

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  • Culture - Literature - Weekly Features

    What Was Left Undone

    15 September 2024

    Shane Schick — Excerpt: Instead, unfinished novels may be more like a literary form – an accidental one, perhaps, but with some recognizable characteristics.

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Winter Weeklies

Edition 1, November 16: Saeed Ibrahim reminisces a trip to an Indian cantonment hill town in the early 60s, and Michael Smith’s early-90s Eastern Bloc adventures find him in Leningrad.

“GOING DOOLALLY!” — Memories of an Idyllic Childhood Vacation by Saeed Ibrahim

Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad) by Michael Smith

Edition 2, November 23: Sabyasachi Roy plumbs the depths of antagonists’ hearts, and Kathleen Fullerton finds humanity in the unlikeliest of places.

Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy by Sabyasachi Roy

Gratitude Found Inside the Fence by Kathleen Fullerton

Edition 3, November 30: Catherine Rossi commits unsung human acts like a beloved sitcom character, and Mike Nagel ponders the conjunction of humans and animals, trying to save the latter in the process.

Franklin is the Big Salad by Catherine Rossi

Man Vs. Wild by Mike Nagel

Edition 4, December 7: Sarah Das Gupta hitchhikes through Ireland and imperial history on her road to Limerick, and MJ Huntsgood has tips on how to keep writing and score a literary agent.

The Road to Limerick by Sarah Das Gupta

How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year by MJ Huntsgood

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Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

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upcoming weekly features

Panchami, Culture/Literature/Society, Dec 14
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Dec 14

Devin James Leonard, Humour, Dec 21
Sabyasachi Roy, Humour, Dec 21

Sayan Sarkar, Travelogue, Dec 28
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Dec 28

Rohit Karir, Humour, Jan 4
Sabyasachi Roy, Humour, Jan 4

Jeremy Turner, Travelogue, Jan 11
Michael Smith, Culture/Travel/ Photo Essay, Jan 11

Selina Sheth, Humour, Jan 18
Joy Dillon, Humour, Jan 18

Jiel Narvekar, Humour, Jan 25
Sharika Nair, Humour, Jan 25

Natalie Wolf, Humour, Feb 1
Aditi Dasgupta, Humour, Feb 1

Sabyasachi Roy, Humour/Culture, Feb 8
Aditi Patil, Travelogue, Feb 8

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