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Editorial Team
- Apr 9
- 3 min
Dear Ed Sheeran - Bhakti Mukhi
Dear Ed Sheeran, Someone told me, always say what's on your mind and I am only being honest with you... When I listened to "Bibia Be Ye...

Editorial Team
- Mar 23
- 3 min
The Relativity of Language and Culture - Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai
After I say that I grew up bilingual, most people immediately ask me which language I learnt first, a question I don’t know the answer...

Editorial Team
- Mar 9
- 3 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Feb 23
- 9 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Feb 16
- 1 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Feb 9
- 2 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Jan 19
- 1 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Jan 15
- 1 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Jan 12
- 6 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Dec 22, 2021
- 8 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
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,...

Editorial Team
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Oct 27, 2021
- 1 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
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...

Editorial Team
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
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....