Skip to content
THE HOOGHLY REVIEW

Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

  • All Issues
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Film/TV
      • Food
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
      • Society
      • Sports
      • Theatre
      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
    • Weekly Features Archive (October 6, 2024 and Before)
  • ASAP Corner
    • Books
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy
  • All Issues
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Film/TV
      • Food
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
      • Society
      • Sports
      • Theatre
      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
    • Weekly Features Archive (October 6, 2024 and Before)
  • ASAP Corner
    • Books
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy
  • Culture - Humour - Music - Weekly Features

    There Are Way Too Many Obits for Rock Musicians

    12 January 2025

    Michael Fowler — Excerpt: You might say I was born to rock, or at least reached puberty to rock.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026
  • Craft - Culture - Literature - Sports - Weekly Features

    The Sports Writing Voice That Has Stuck with Me the Most: Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World”

    29 December 2024

    Matthew Johnson — Excerpt: Angelou is not just telling the play-by-play of an ordinary sporting event; she invites her readers to experience it.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    How to Go from Book Idea to Acquiring a Literary Agent in Less Than One Year

    7 December 2025

    Unlikable Characters: Understanding the Appeal and Building Empathy

    23 November 2025

    Writing as Bull Riding

    21 September 2025
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    The Mayfly

    8 December 2024

    Michael Smith — Excerpt: As a schoolboy I was shocked, outraged even, that a creature could have its entire existence limited to just one day.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026
  • Culture - Literature - Weekly Features

    Writing Against Oblivion

    8 December 2024

    J.D. Isip — Excerpt: If we are honest, we all want to be ghosts.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026
  • Culture - Film/TV - Weekly Features

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

    1 December 2024

    Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: The only question left for you to consider now is what happens when Mickey shows his shadows—his deeper, fallible, more steeped-in-sin-human qualities—over what audiences have been conditioned to expect.

    Continue Reading

    Related Posts

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026
 Older Posts
Newer Posts 

This Week

Shristi Das studies the malady of perfection, and Doğa Kaplan sees things our lives depend on.

Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic? by Shristi Das

it’s only a wheelbarrow by Doğa Kaplan

What’s hot

THR in Print

The Many Lives of Atlas A, Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition

“Breasts” by Allison Field Bell published in Issue 4, chosen for Best Microfiction 2026 by Diane Seuss

Fictile Feelings, guest-edited by Sanjeev Sethi

Editors’ Interview: Bookbot Theory | S2E29 | How Literary Magazines Shape Author Branding | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon Music

Welcome to The Beehive!

Follow us on Substack!

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

current submission calls

ASAP Corner — Free, Fast, Rolling

upcoming weekly features

TBD

listed/indexed on

Monthly Archives

© The Hooghly Review (2022-onwards)
Graceful Theme by Optima Themes