Dolphins: Kaikoura, New Zealand
“We swivel our heads around until a diamond cuts through the waves. A diamond made up of dusky dolphins with silver stripes on their chins.” Nicolette Loizou swims with dolphins in New Zealand.
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Spotlight Artist: Jasmine Castillo
“Escape Artists is a representation of my brain’s thought patterns. I love all art forms and have always enjoyed experiencing art on all levels through all mediums.” Noah Klein interviews Jasmine Castillo of the Escape Artists Collective.
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Going Gonzo at the Gonzofest
“A city that once rejected the wayward youth now embraces him.” Constance A. Dunn reports from the Gonzofest in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Unconditional Surrender: April 30, 1975
“I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.” Michelle Robin La shares the first person account of her husband’s experience as a child in the Vietnam on April 30th, 1975.
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On Monsters
“This made me reassess everything that I thought I had known about him, and to an extent what I thought I had known about myself.” Deonte Osayande looks at what happens when a childhood friend becomes a murderer.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part II
“New constructions in the city — often featureless, rectilinear beehives built inside gated compounds — are frequently christened as a ‘court’, ‘manor’ or an ‘enclave’.” Part II of Chitralekha Basu’s look at how English is used in modern Calcutta.
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The Never-ending Journey
“From the start, the reader is embarks on a mind-altering journey which may just be the alcohol-induced dreams of a drunkard met in the introductory chapter.” Sébastien Doubinsky reviews Robert Pinget’s novel ‘Graal Flibuste’.
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Randy Coal-cutter: Part I
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
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Spotlight Artist: Alia Bilgrami
“Her practice is about exploring herself, and she uses numerous tools to weave her narratives.” Shameen Arshad interviews artist Alia Bilgrami.
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Transitory Condition
“Characters…in motion, changing, and searching for identity. Any attempt at traditional syntax construction is lost, and subsequently altered, as the words themselves become reflections of the character’s mindset.” Noah Klein defines the transitory condition of Michael Ondaatje’s characters.
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