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“A New Way of Spelling Athens”: a survey of contemporary Greek short fiction

Woof, Woof, Dear Lord by Sotiris Domitriou (trans. Leo Marshall). Kedros, 1995. Something Will Happen, You’ll See by Christos Ikonomou (trans. Karen Emmerich). Archepelago Books, 2016. Good Friday Vigil by Yorgos Ioannou (trans. Patrick Mackridge and Jackie Wilcox). Kedros, 1995. I’d Like by Amanda Michalopoulou (trans. Karen Emmerich). Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. On My Aunt’s …

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Goodbye, Iconoclasts

By Ranbir Sidhu / Essay, Essay in English / 6 minutes of reading

I got into a minor Twitter spat with a prominent author the other day, and rather than continue to argue his point, he blocked me. I’d called him out on a particularly egregious tweet, pure unfounded innuendo and fear-mongering around the new Covid variant, casting all governments and corporations as evil and everything wrapped up …

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Against Community

By Ranbir Sidhu / Essay, Essay in English / 6 minutes of reading

My new therapist asked me what it was I wanted from the sessions, what my goals were, etc. and I told her a few ideas, a few of my various hang-ups and dramas, recent and from childhood, past troubled relationships, etc., and then said what I really wanted, or what I was thinking the other …

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Waiting to Hit the Ground

By Ranbir Sidhu / Issue 25, Political Poetry, Magazine / 19 minutes of reading

Interview Shuddhashar: What is it that you strive to explore and convey through your poetry? Ranbir Sidhu: I don’t think of myself as a poet at all, though I have written, or attempted to write, poetry since I was in my teens at various times. So the idea I might have something I want to …

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