Rafaela Kottou — Excerpt: Salamanca, Spain is where I had the best steak of my life. It was at a restaurant in the center of the city, which they call the Plaza Mayor.
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Listening for the Forest’s Voice: On Kanika Gupta’s The Cursed Land of Lustful Women and The Power of Storytelling (Performance Text with Notes)
Namrata — Excerpt: Gupta begins from a historical contradiction. Classical literature overflows with lush forests and sensuous rivers, yet the voices of forest communities and women are scantly inscribed in the canonical record. Her devised text steps into that absence without pretending to fill it with authenticity.
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Exploring the Self: Allison Field Bell’s Without Woman or Body
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang — Excerpt: The cover photograph taken by the author herself provides a clue to the range of themes: self-portraiture, literary craft, formalism, the female body, whiteness in relation to post-feminist America, and natural landscapes versus constructed interiors.
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Do Not Pet While Working
Kira Córdova — Excerpt: If you have an 18th-century British military kink, I beg you, don’t tell me.
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The Time I Invented Astronomy at the Local Pool
Jim Hohenbary — Excerpt: And yet, ancient alien astronaut theories seem to be more popular than ever in seeking to explain ancient monuments and ancient knowledge. So strange.