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Prose Feature: A Nighttime Without Fear - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

My phone screen displayed the time—21:30, an hour when most restaurants back in Arkansas would be closed or closing. Meanwhile, here in...
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Nationalism & Sports—What Governments Can Do to Limit Violent Sporting Habits - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

According to surveys and studies from Pew Research Centre, a leading American think-tank, high rates of nationalism can still be seen in...
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Fairy of Winter Night Sweet - Poem by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

As my sandalwood candle goes out wisping smoke into the witching hour I dream of ocean waves. Crashing like lightning, the froth inedible...
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Red Dragon - Prose by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

I am biased in my love for the spring. The spring brings with it blooming cherry blossoms and cold air that doesn’t cut on its way across...
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Submit to Issue 6!

It's that time again... our team is ready to read your work and consider it for publication in our next issue! Send us your poetry, your...
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ISSUE 5 OUT NOW!

We are so excited to announce the release of our fifth issue, and our first issue of the new year! Thank you to all of our amazing...
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White Man’s Burden: Why Western Museums Should Return Historic Artifacts to Their Native Countries

by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai At the heart of the British Museum, the Smithsonian, and other great museums of the Western world are historical...
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Prose Feature: Wild Countryside of Childhood Past - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

With the monkeys tapping on the windows, I grew. In fields of wild grass and scattered boulders, I ran. Under trees, flowers, the...
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The Rebel Poet - Talha Hasan

Kazi Nazrul Islam, known as the Rebel Poet, is the national poet of Bangladesh. He wrote short stories, essays and novels too, but poems...
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The Art of Queer-Coding in Mainland China - Part 2: Word of Honor - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

While the Untamed utilized traditional aspects of Chinese culture to show the queerness of its characters, Word of Honor gravitated more...
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Poetry Feature: Memories of Saltwater on Skin - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

Memories of Saltwater on Skin I learned to float when I was three, When my mother carried me to the middle of the beach. She let go,...
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Short Biography of Rabindranath Tagore - Talha Hasan

Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on May 7th, 1861. He was born into the...
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To Relearn a Language - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

A native language is a difficult thing to lose. Not difficult in the sense that it is physically hard, but more in the sense of the...
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The Cost of Independence - Talha Hasan

15 August 1947. A historical day in the Indian subcontinent. It was the day India gained independence from the British at the cost of...
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A Farmer in the Leaves - Poetry Feature - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

A Farmer in the Leaves There is a farmer in the leaves With a tear upon his sleeve He watches the soldiers as they march Through his...
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Review: War in American Society and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

Published in 1990, Tim O’Brien’s collection of connected short stories The Things They Carried received great critical acclaim both as a...
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ISSUE 4 IS OUT NOW!

Issue 4 is finally here! Make sure to check it out on our Issues page and read the amazing work we've been waiting to share with you....
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The "Good Old Days" Are Lies with a Bit of Truth - Talha Hasan

My grandparents used to say how much better it was during their times. They'd recall their golden days, the days that are lost forever....
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Bitter Truth: Al Qaeda Won the War on Terror - Talha Hasan

11 September 2001. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The deadliest terror attack in the history of the world occurred in...
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