The Wines of the Shakespeare Estate
“In wine there is truth…” Zsolt Láng’s ‘short story written in the form of wine labels’, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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La Disparue
“The girl addressed as “you†in countless poems/ escapes. She’s sick of being told/ what she knows perfectly well…” Weekend poem, by Frederick Pollack.
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Reconsecrated
“We hunted down/ politeness with iced vodka/ and flew outside, where the night/ took your tongue and gave it to mine.” Poem of the Week (July 22), by Janet Lees.
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Pangolin/Lion
“…the grand horror of his head, stretching/ into the fang-house/ that clatters and clatters/ against this armoured morsel/ this shock of Pangolin…” Weekend poem, by James Coghill.
Read MoreCaitlin and Becky
“The sun rises and I suddenly wish I were somebody who could hurl a whiskey bottle against a wall.” Story of the Week (July 18), by Andrew Tobolowsky.
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Getting a Superstar Girlfriend
“We leered at each/ bright star sparkling over the city,/ even ones guarded by mist/ and asteroids like angry fathers…” Poem of the Week (July 15), by Inua Ellams.
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Grandmother’s Vocabulary
“She wanted us to remain girls/ for as long as biology would allow.” Weekend poem, by Joey Chin.
Read MoreLove in the Time of Dengue
“As monsoon season progressed into autumn and the newspapers started giving daily roundups of the death tolls, dengue dominated the lives and conversation of all Lahoris…” Story of the Week (July 11), by Naureen Amjad.
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Little Mother
“Fleet-footed/ as a deer at seventy, Little Mother warms/ water for the family, cooks breakfast/ and dinner, tidies up the fallen decades.” Poem of the Week (July 8), by Usha Kishore.
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My grandfather
“…he never bothered/ learning another script,/ dependent still, at 73, on his grandchildren/ to read him ice-cream signs…” Weekend poem, by Akhil Katyal.
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