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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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    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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    Writing Against Oblivion

    8 December 2024

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

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    “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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    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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