Other Lives
“Given a choice, she would go out and comb the manic streets of Delhi for terrorists or car jackers, instead of being cooped up in a dingy room with me.” Story of the Week (October 25), by Vineetha Mokkil.
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Jaggery Roof
“It’s midnight in Delhi./ I am tongue kissing a bowl of Bengali pudding/…listening to the heartbeats of a million books.” Poem of the Week (October 22), by TJ Dema.
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The Faber Book of
“The publishers would like to/ Gratefully acknowledge themselves.” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Kandahar
“He would sit beside it and watch the colours of the sky transform it as if the sun bent around the horizon just to take a peek at the angles and crevices of its metallic beauty.” Story of the Week (October 18), by Anam Abbas.
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Walking
“It could be a remote suburb of Byzantium or the edge/ of a more familiar place.” Weekend Poem, by Leslie L. Nielsen.
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Elias: 1949-1971
“He loathed the greater exposure it gave him to the non-Orthodox world. Not because he loathed the world he saw, but because he loathed that this world saw him.” Story of the Week (October 11), by Cathy Rosoff.
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Peshawar, 1976
“The sun was always moving/ from one sky to another.// Do you understand?” Poem of the Week (October 8), by Patricia Hale.
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Inquisition
“And these are the verbs, neatly/ stacked. You think they bite. They/ don’t, but they sting a bit.” Weekend poem, by Mark J. Mitchell.
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A Strand of Ice
“I saw the matchstick trotting arrogantly into the wide, blue expanse, brandishing several flags and ready to force-feed its language to whatever or whomever it ran into.” Story of the Week (October 4), by Timothy Ogene.
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Parallel Lines
“Still, the habit in Belfast grows/ Like a DeLorean/ Doing the white lines in the road.” Poem of the Week (October 1), by Eamonn Stewart.
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