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...

My phone screen displayed the time—21:30, an hour when most restaurants back in Arkansas would be closed or closing. Meanwhile, here in...

According to surveys and studies from Pew Research Centre, a leading American think-tank, high rates of nationalism can still be seen in...

As my sandalwood candle goes out wisping smoke into the witching hour I dream of ocean waves. Crashing like lightning, the froth inedible...

by Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai At the heart of the British Museum, the Smithsonian, and other great museums of the Western world are historical...

With the monkeys tapping on the windows, I grew. In fields of wild grass and scattered boulders, I ran. Under trees, flowers, the...

Kazi Nazrul Islam, known as the Rebel Poet, is the national poet of Bangladesh. He wrote short stories, essays and novels too, but poems...

While the Untamed utilized traditional aspects of Chinese culture to show the queerness of its characters, Word of Honor gravitated more...

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,...

Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born on May 7th, 1861. He was born into the...

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...

15 August 1947. A historical day in the Indian subcontinent. It was the day India gained independence from the British at the cost of...

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...

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

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....

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

Currently in mainland China, there are censorship laws in place that forbid the display of LGBTQ themes in visual media, leading to a...

O Kabul, What haven't you been through! What misery you didn't face! What sorrows you don't bear! What horrors you don't know! O Kabul!...

As my gaze wanders from the news of burning forests to the books on my shelves, I feel a twinge in my heart, and I begin to wonder how...