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Active Recall

After I found out I was going to have a baby, I started filming one second of every day. I used an app that allows...

The Poet's March

Let me tell you, it wasn’t Europe, I asked, it was to St Peter’s in Rome that I pleaded for mercy… when you have a complaint,...

Swimming to Neverland

Two years ago, I found Neverland. Unlike the island Barrie described in his famed works, this one isn’t in some tropical place full of flamingos...

Noah Davis

This exhibition is beautifully curated, chronologically arranged, each piece has room to breathe, a very illuminating and contemplative experience. Davis painted something like 400 works...

Pitch: Thames Symphony

Thames Symphony by Nicolas D. Sampson is a literary fiction novel with elements of London-focused psychogeography. On the one hand, it’s an immersive meditation –...

Death by Fox, Cow or River? Suburbanite in the Yorkshire Countryside

Who’s there? From my house’s mustardy Picasso face, I peer sleepily in the morning through one of its offset eyes. I’m trying to motivate myself...

Under Your Flaming Shirt

You too might have done this. No, you, of all people, my friend, must have. I say that not just because I relish the security...

Touristed

“Professor Wen Ming, Professor Wen Ming!” He looked back, the key to his office door pausing mid-rotation. Lin, the department secretary, waved at him from...

Smouldering

Zain squinted his eyes. The temperature was in the high nineties. The sky was clear but the air felt humid. He was short of breath,...

L.A. Cinemas: The City’s Real Houses of Worship

You’re here, and it’s a party but you feel like you’re stepping into a cathedral, and the crowded bar glows like an altar. L.A. worships...

Philadelphia: A Ghazal

I never noticed a sound in my childhood room in Philadelphia, not the horn-blaring, teenage screaming, razzle-dazzle nighttime streets of Philadelphia. I slept deeply in...

The Hungarian Vegetarian

I’m not sure if my father was joking when he told me over the phone that my grandmother would be turning in her grave if...

Srinagar: Occupation by Day & Night

I arrive on a domestic flight from Delhi to Srinagar during Ramadan in 2018, registering as a foreigner three times, palms sweating and grateful that...

Food Shopping in Rome

In the US, naturally, I drove to the supermarket. The route led down a pot-holed avenue walled with office buildings. I loaded a cart with...

Mission Dolores Park: A Map Oneirica

My right fibula hurts when I walk as a Boricua in San Francisco, dreaming of the home I left. Nobody knows my name here, nor...

A Haunting of Memory

The tandem release of Faith Adiele’s two new books, Voice/Over and Her Voice, create a hand-in-hand hybrid memoir in two different forms. Her Voice is...

In Salt Lake City, Everyone and Everything is Queer*

While standing at the bar waiting for The Sun’s bartender to grab my Corona, I noticed a man with thinning brown hair, medium height and...

Greenwood

A handsome, fresh-faced young man in the uniform of a British Tommy stands framed within the front doorway of a beautiful, upper-middle-class country house. He...

Our Ailing Ecology Anthropomorphised

What destroys us is often unclear and obscure. Sickness works in mysterious ways. It takes time to manifest, sometimes years. Entropy advances in a roundabout...

Seaweed Project

Slippery and glistening, merely one cell in thickness, the kelp throbs with life, clinging on tight to the rocks even with the waves thumping against...