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Climate Displacement and the Security Crisis in the Bay of Bengal

In Gabura, a river island in southwestern Bangladesh, the waiting room of the local health centre fills up before the doors even open. The...

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

Before I went to Taiwan this spring, I wanted to read the English translation of Taiwan Travelogue as an introduction to this island that...

The Dealer

Col. Grigori Aleksandro Aleksandrovich, Retd. claimed his own labeled vodka was radical-free, and one would never wake with a headache in the morning if...

Breaking the Cycle

  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...

Bhagwan Ji

All of them sat in a corner of Sashi Master’s living room as it rained heavily outside. In his modest house, the living room...

The Door Handle

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

The Architecture of Absence

  “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....

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

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,...

The Missing Cat Caper

I’m Max Callahan, P.I. That stands for Private Investigator if you’re not hip to the detective game like me. You might be more familiar...

Moros and Cassandra

Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of...