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  • Culture - Humour - Weekly Features

    Present Perfect and Other Demonic Possessions

    8 February 2026

    Sabyasachi Roy — Excerpt: This piece is by a Bengali who has been haunted, or rather, it is a haunting in eleven tenses. But, it always starts with the Present Perfect.

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    Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 3 – Prague, Czechoslovakia)

    14 December 2025

    Michael Smith — Excerpt: The fog had lifted and we found ourselves residing in an example of Soviet architectural chic, a massive 22-storey, 168-roomed block of flats that had been converted into a hotel.

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    Reading Shafak in a Burning World: The Art of Storytelling

    14 December 2025

    Panchami — Excerpt: What began as reading ‘about’ the region transcended into reading ‘from’ the region. Shafak’s work was a beacon, my entry into literature from West Asia.

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    The Road to Limerick

    7 December 2025

    Sarah Das Gupta — Excerpt: We were hoping to hitch a lift up the beautiful West Coast to the city of Limerick where we had arranged to stay for a few days.

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

    7 December 2025

    MJ Huntsgood — Excerpt: If you’re tender-hearted like me, I highly recommend Reddit. They give gentle, soul-crushing reviews.

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