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The Well of Love in Translated Literature: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue

Kovida Mehra -
Before I went to Taiwan this spring, I wanted to read the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue as an introduction to this island that...
Pages from a Diary

Breaking the Cycle

Elise Tyson -
  My health app started to crack on day 47 of my menstrual cycle. Since going off hormonal contraception (for good this time), I’ve started...
Pages from a Diary

The Door Handle

Jacqueline Abelson -
My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded...
Armchair Arbiters

The Architecture of Absence

Narjisse Moumna -
  “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”  —Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation.  “The way paranoia has of understanding anything is by imitating and embodying it....
Culture Couch

Zara Larsson Didn’t Steal My Nani’s Jewelry Box

Srijoni Nandi -
Somewhere in the internet's collective imagination lives a place called the Khia Asylum—a metaphorical purgatory named after the rapper only known for one song,...
Essays

Between Willows and Walls: The 1960s at Eton College

David Ward -
  There’s no doubt that the possibility of enrolment in what is generally considered to be the world’s most renowned public school should be regarded...
Armchair Arbiters

Found in Translation: On ‘Heart Lamp’ and Women We Meet Through Other Tongues

Surmayi Khatana -
Heart Lamp takes you by the hand and plunges you into the tangled chaos of the everyday lives of Muslim women in Karnataka. Where...
Armchair Arbiters

The Final Cut of Thomas Shelby

Yuvraj Nathani -
Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for Season 6 of Peaky Blinders "It means you f*** people over. Don't give a f***. Covet and steal and burn all...
Armchair Arbiters

Gossip Is Serious Business, says Kelsey McKinney

Yamini Krishnan -
In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “To a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it...
Pages from a Diary

Sunlight, Scandals, and Sea Spray: Summer of ’59

David Ward -
Part One: Juan-Les-Pins--Comic Books, Cold Chicken, and the Hotel Juana The summer vacation that I was fortunate enough to experience, one school term prior to...
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