It was in the summer of 1989 in the predictable and insular environs of small-town Bengal that the ghosts first arrived.
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Knight in shining armour. He’s not a knight – he’s a grifter with a saviour complex in an elastane shirt. Chivalry score: Error 404.
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The poems shift from the familiar and recognisable to the unfamiliar and uncongenial in just a few words, and just as easily back again. It is Gangopadhyay’s metier.
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Ahmad’s greatest strength lies in his restraint. He writes with remarkable economy, allowing silences to carry as much weight as dialogue.
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Holly Sykes is a Hong Kong author and essayist whose Substack, Beyond the Book Cover, explores a beautiful premise: that our wonky IKEA bookshelves are actually time machines.








