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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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  • Music Review - Weekly Features

    Hunting for Joy through Music — Holding Absence’s The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction

    3 November 2024

    Music Review by Mark McConville — Excerpt: To create art, you must be ambitious, and Holding Absence shows they’re masters of melancholia while breaking ground.

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this week

Daniel Fitzpatrick follows life along a loafing leaf’s locus, and Mark McConville traces a whirlwind of emotions through Holding Absence’s rock masterpiece.

Leaves by Daniel Fitzpatrick

Hunting for Joy through Music — Holding Absence’s The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction by Mark McConville

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Shikha Valsalan, Humour, Nov 10
Miss BayLeaf, Humour, Nov 10

Parul Desai Shah, Culture Essay, Nov 17
Jahnavi Gogoi, Culture Essay, Nov 17

Billie-Leigh Burns, Humour, Nov 24
Mathieu Cailler, Humour, Nov 24

Marie Cloutier, Craft Essay, Dec 1
Mary Buchanan, Culture Essay, Dec 1

J.D. Isip, Culture Essay, Dec 8
Michael Smith, Culture Essay, Dec 8

Mitra Samal, Humour, Dec 15
Ravibala Shenoy, Humour, Dec 15

Wesley Zurovec, Humour, Dec 22
Daniel Seifer, Humour, Dec 22

Matthew Johnson, Culture/Craft, Dec 29
Gary Beck, Humour, Dec 29

Anupam Singh and Areeb Ahmad, Translation, Jan 5
Asha Krishna, Book Review, Jan 5

Benjamin Brindise, Humour, Jan 12
Michael Fowler, Humour/Culture, Jan 12

Stuti Sinha, Humour, Jan 19
Amlanjyoti Goswami, Book Review, Jan 19

Surabhi Katyal, Culture Essay, Jan 26
Damayanti Saha, Culture Essay, Jan 26

Sarah Masters, Humour, Feb 2
Frederick Charles Melancon, Humour, Feb 2

Ed N. White, Humour, Feb 9
Nina Miller, Humour, Feb 9

Sarang Bhand, Craft, Feb 16
Elaine Nadal, Craft, Feb 16

Shamik Banerjee, Humour, Feb 23
Eli S. Evans, Humour, Feb 23

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