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The Bangalore Review

Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2026

  • Non-Fiction
    • Art
    • Book Reviews
    • Cinema
    • Creative Non-Fiction
    • Culture
    • Literature
    • Memoirs
    • Music
    • Nature & Environment
    • Philosophy
  • Specials
    • Editorial
    • TBR Recommends
    • TBR Roundtable
    • Translations
    • Fiction Special 2024
      • Peripheries – of Being and Living
      • Promises Made and Promises Broken – the NATURE of Things
      • Writing From the Peripheries of Language
      • Queering Language
      • Anthologies – The Editorial Perspective
  • Fiction
    • Flash Fiction
    • Short Fiction
  • Poetry
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
November, 2020

The Tall Man

Inspired by an Oneida Tribal Tale and a Selection from the Longer Story, “Cloven” On a stormy summer night just like this one, just around..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2020

Cats

‘I have been thinking about getting a cat for some time,’ my husband said between sips of tea. I looked up in surprise. I had..
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  • Translations
October, 2020

Two poems from Lorinc Szabo

Translator’s Note: Lőrinc Szabó is one of the giants of the Hungarian literary scene of the mid-20th century. He often invoked his children Klara and..
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  • Music
  • Non-Fiction
October, 2020

Consciousness Amid Crisis: Elaquent’s ‘Forever is a Pretty Long Time’ and the Superiority of the Arts in Our Lives

Our longest days are barely over. What feels like a sci-fi feature set in a distant, dystopian future is the current reality for millions of..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Excision

“I’m afraid you will not smokemy meaning…”-John Keats Thursday morning he moved himself out of bedbefore any light broke throughthe already broken shadeand stood in..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
October, 2020

Door to door in the Banlieue

Sidestep the puddle that stretches from one side of the sandy road to the other, up to the lip of the cement doorstep. Knock on..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Leaving Iowa

In fact, we barely knew your slim thicketof zip codes could be so easily shruggedfrom memory, there wasn’t even a backseat side-eye.We don’t belong to..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Corners

The bat carries starson the undersidesof her wings. Her head is the tipof galaxyher body a velvetcometshattering nightwith its jagged arcof flight. Her thumbs &..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

This is an orange, round tablet

Autumn starts when the trees give up drinking.An appointment is madein the ditch of Lake Meadand the hairy hands,tented on mahogany,speak calmly,which can only augur..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2020

The Incandescence of Boredom

Nandu turns five today. I’m given a list of things to get for the birthday party. Crayons, extra paper cups, Scotch tape, board pins, apples,..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Subjectionable

The world sounds lovely over my left shoulder.A dog barks. A bird is chirping. The white rush of two-ton metal trucks on the asphalt. I am..
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Our Lady of Corona

Hail Mary, full of Grace, Mother of God, Mother of Angels, Sacred Virgin,Knower of unknown unknowns, Arbiter of the end of the beginning:let it be...
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  • Poetry
October, 2020

Now That I Am Dead

I have so much to tell you,now that I am dead. I left my native soil in 1895 to seeka land as warm as gold,..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
October, 2020

How To Converse With The Dead

When he was five years old, my grandfather discovered how to converse with the dead.  It was a time for believing in Argentina. The Man..
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  • Translations
September, 2020

Two Poems by Meschonnic

a lineis only asentence that stops then anotherlife rhymeswith lifewe are all living rhymeswho look tofinish their sentencesthere is noend ofspeakingmaybe without knowing itwe are..
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  • Book Reviews
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2020

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Nothing distinguishes a human being from other creatures (including other humans themselves) like memory. Each of us are unique in our experiences and their associated..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
September, 2020

Still the ‘A’ Train

Not too many memories here, in these chic walls caught in the daily grind. But between the walls there are those truths—whistling through the subway..
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  • Art
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2020

This is how we kill an Artist

“The artist’s life is romantic to everyone but him.” An Artist is Born It begins, or ends like this: one day you’re in the back..
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  • Poetry
September, 2020

Frangipani behind the Ear

We return to the Grand Pacific Hotelin Suva, Fiji, but it is not the way it was or what we thought it was:the cold lobster almost..
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  • Poetry
September, 2020

Keep Her Out of the Tent

There’s a temporary campground, with a tent,billowing-white, just off Sprague Ave. in Tacoma. Keep your daughter home.  Make popcorn with salt,buttery-warm. Let her watch the..
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  • Poetry
September, 2020

Retreat

The tiny cottage in the woods is abandoneduntil the woman whose husband drinkstakes refuge thereafter a bender,without regret.The woman loves her husband,and this is how..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
September, 2020

Between the Numinous and Me

Every author gets asked—cornered, perhaps—to say succinctly: What’s your book about? Two ex-cons murder a family of four in Kansas and, after the crime and..
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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