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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Timing

    18 May 2025

    Garrett Berberich — Excerpt: SMILE! You are currently in a Private View Zone and are being Timed. Taking in views in this Zone will require compensation after the 90-second mark.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Flower

    4 May 2025

    Zary Fekete — Excerpt: Once, on a Saturday, Istvan took the tram to its end stop and he wandered up and down the streets of small houses, not to find her, not exactly, but to imagine.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    Richie Jay

    4 May 2025

    Muheez Olawale — Excerpt: After Jimi garbs himself in the chosen clothes and ornaments, he splashes some cologne all over him. Looking expensive equals zero if he doesn’t smell expensive.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    ‘Danfo’ and ‘Ode to a Scaly Skin’

    20 April 2025

    Titilayo Matiku — Excerpt: Doesn't Mango like rice? I have not seen any roach lately so he needs to eat whatever is available.

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  • Humour - Weekly Features

    The curious case of Tim Cranshaw and all the people that were hurt, maimed, or mildly inconvenienced by it

    20 April 2025

    Nenad Pavlovic — Excerpt: It took three fire brigades exactly seven days to put out the fire at Acacia No. 9.

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Candice M. Kelsey muses on kith and kin, and Mark Daniel Taylor comes unstuck in time.

‘To My Step Father-in-Law,’ ‘Education,’ ‘Cool,’ ‘Back in Los Angeles’ and ‘Fitness Journal’ by Candice M. Kelsey

Mister Bubbles by Mark Daniel Taylor

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Issue 4 (April 2025)

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

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upcoming weekly features

Mark Daniel Taylor, Humour, June 1
Candice Kelsey, Humour, June 1

Brian Christopher Giddens, Humour, June 8
Gary Finnegan, Culture/Humour, June 8

Roger Chapman, Humour, June 15
Bhartrihari, translated by Louis Hunt, Translation, June 15

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, June 22
Bidisha Satpathy, Humour, June 22

Maureen Tai, Culture/Humour, June 29
Saraswati Nagpal, Humour, June 29

James Sennott and Alba Blanco, Humour, July 6
Amita Basu, Humour, July 6

Dustin Vann, Culture Essay, July 13
Mark McConville, Culture Essay / Music Review, July 13

Barnali Ray Shukla, Humour, July 20
Zoé Mahfouz, Humour, July 20

Elizabeth Barton, Humour, July 27
Chayanika Saikia, Photo Essay, July 27

Susnata Karmakar, Photo Essay, Aug 3
Panna Naik, translated by Rohee Dholakia, Translation, Aug 3

D.C. Nobes, Humour, Aug 10
Samiksha Ransom, Humour, Aug 10

Z. M. Asafzah, Culture/Music/Mythology/Review, Aug 17
Jer Hayes, Culture Essay, Aug 17

Kira Córdova, Culture/Humour, Aug 24
Jim Hohenbary, Culture/Science, Aug 24

Rafaela Kottou, Culture/Travel/Food, Aug 31
Raka Banerjee, Culture/Travel, Aug 31

Mary Buchanan Sellers, Culture, Sept 7
Cate LeBrun, Culture, Sept 7

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, Sept 14
Marshall Moore, Culture/Travel, Sept 14

Sydney’s Guard, Culture/Music, Sept 21
Guinotte Wise, Culture/Craft, Sept 21

Rakhima Imanaliyeva, Travelogue, Sept 28
John Haymaker, Travelogue, Sept 28

Ayushi Kainthola, Culture, Oct 5
Shobha Ramani, Culture/Food, Oct 5

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, Oct 12
Michael Smith, Travelogue/Photo Essay, Oct 12

Alice Moon, Humour, Oct 19
Sarp Sozdinler, Humour, Oct 19

Johnny Roach, Humour, Oct 26
Tim Frank, Humour, Oct 26

Sumitra Singam, Humour, Nov 2
Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya, Humour, Nov 2

Mojaffor Hossain, translated by Rituparna Mukherjee, Translation, Nov 9
Arpita Bhawal, Humour, Nov 9

Saeed Ibrahim, Culture/Travel, Nov 16
Michael Smith, Photo Essay / Travelogue, Nov 16

Sabyasachi Roy, Craft Essay, Nov 23
Kathleen Fullerton, Culture/Society, Nov 23

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