I woke up on a lousy Tuesday morning, Waiting to be apprenticed to some hideous misjudgment, The car ran off with its moneyed roof. I came upon new music, meanwhile, All of it played like old broken records, All of it played for hours, uninterrupted Who would come between us on this blue day? I …
Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more The most anticipated, discussed and accessorised novel of the year was Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), launched on a tide of tote bags and bucket hats. It’s a book about the accommodations of adulthood, …
No black, no white, Everything is grey in your mystic world; You did not teach binaries to me I could become a human being In your androgynous world. I remember a Bengali As I think of you who Worships motherhood; I was your headdress Your second mother. You would treat me as if I’m the …
Scholar Molly Yarn identifies more than 60 women who have contributed to the history of the Bard’s works, and believes there are still more to find William Shakespeare Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1869, an anonymous critic blamed “the numberless alterations, mutilations, corruptions, or whatever we may choose …
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Me and my two siblings met at the new mall, all newish shoes, clean underwear, someone else cuts our hair. We made it out, we made out, where the mountains aren’t. Where a bookstore can keep her nose above water. Success in the U.S. of A.. Thursday, a drizzling rain, a booth in a dark …
