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“Poetry is a way of stopping time”: An Interview with Jeet Thayil

“I think when the poems came back to me, there was a kind of a lightness, a recklessness that I hadn’t experienced before”, Jeet Thayil remarks.  When he published his...

The 2025 DIY World Conflict Starter Kit

They said it couldn’t happen again. They said humanity had matured—grown out of its adolescence of nation-states, flags, and blood-flecked rhetoric. They said the world...

The Beckoning Reeds

On a dismal autumn afternoon, Eleanor Lytton made her way along a narrow boardwalk through the reeds and cattails of a desolate marsh. Leaves...

Love Through the Looking Glass: Taylor Swift and Referencing the Self

“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through...

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Armaan Verma

Armaan Verma is Junior Editor at ALMA MAG. He is the author of Glorious Greeks: Meet the Gods and Undoing of the Thieving King.

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“His ship has gone down on this occasion, as it has many times before, but he knows he will sail again and the same sea will be waiting to engulf him tomorrow.”

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A poem by Armaan Verma

Kathi Roll Man

A poem by Armaan Verma.

The Case For Dissent: Shrinking Spaces For Free Speech On Campuses

The preservation of discourse at universities requires us not to speak out, but to listen

The Virtue of Humanity in ‘Wings of Desire’

A review of Wim Wenders' film 'Wings of Desire' (1987)
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