Enit’ayanfe Ayosojumi Akinsanya — Excerpt: The salt cup fell from my hand. Tope Alabi flew away from my mouth. I almost burnt my eggs.
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Translating the Ache in The Dead Fish: Mahua Sen and the Many Voices of Rajkamal Choudhary
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Choudhary doesn’t write about real life in the usual way; his world is strange and frenetic. The holy and the vile walk hand in hand. Sometimes a prayer turns into a protest. Sen has a hard job expressing that tilt, when faith turns into irony.
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Analysing Humour and Resistance in Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Shayista Jahan — Excerpt: Mushtaq has a sharp eye for women’s issues and portrays them honestly, without embellishment or complication. They are both contextual and universal in different ways. “The personal is political” is the overarching theme that the stories inevitably try to impart.
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The Wrong Tooth
Tim Frank — Excerpt: I’d spent all my savings for this visit and now I looked like a malicious goblin.
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All Things Considered
Johnny Roach — Excerpt: I decided it was time to stop wallowing and start getting my revenge body, as they say.