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August, 2025

Blues For Max Beckmann

A bump came up through the seat, another bump. They had landed. A string of runway lights gliding past, then a row of blue and orange Lufthansa tailplanes
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August, 2025

An explanation for the clause bequeathing everything to the secret Parisian society, les UX

Finally, we compromised and replaced your biography with this poem.
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August, 2025

A Blur of a Woman by Basudhara Roy

Shweta Rao Garg reviews A Blur of a Woman by Basudhara Roy.
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August, 2025

Hims

A few days ago, colleagues at a work function had been standing in a circle. He was pallid-work-him glass in hand, standing to one side.
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August, 2025

Two Poems by Ashwani Kumar

Chewing Bengali paan, mixed with spices and lime, runway girls follow him to the town hall, for a symphony of molten desires.
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August, 2025

Paper Dreams

In our house, we have an entire wall built of books. The English is so hard that even I cannot get through more than a cupboard or two.
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August, 2025

Shadow (Light)

I miss the parts where my siblings and I would pile into my parents’ bed on the weekend, my father still half asleep and my mother long awaken.
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August, 2025

Meditation In Athens During Wildfires

I’m pressed for time and I’m not full of longing like those poets I love who write loss is desire and vice versa. I need to peel the potatoes and carrots and that’s not sexy today.
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August, 2025

Holy

Mrs. Greene just shakes her head. For a moment, she seems about to speak, to demand something again—
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August, 2025

Meditation in Appalachia

Lesson learned; I will stop counting, but you’ve taken my booze, taken my music; I’m only a man after all.
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August, 2025

Paneer Bhurji

She is sixty-seven years of age, she looks her age, and to me she seemed to have aged overnight one day in September 2019.
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August, 2025

You

Your signature phrase so Britishly conditional, the words cross-grained with hope and irony,
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August, 2025

Safe Haven

On the couch again, she propped her feet up on the turquoise ottoman and picked up her book but found she couldn’t concentrate.
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June, 2025

The Editors Roundtable – A Dialogue

TBR brings together five editors who discuss literature, publishing, editing, translation and collaborations between various literary magazines.
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June, 2025

TBR Interviews Parismita Singh

TBR Interviews Parismita Singh
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June, 2025

TBR Recommends – June 2025

This month's TBR Recommends is curated by V. Ramaswamy
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June, 2025

The Red Dark

My chest is still buzzing when we rise together from the planks and wander into the meadow.
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June, 2025

Only Here for My Niece’s Christening

He smells like Irish Spring and lots of it. I offer him an agnostic smile.
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June, 2025

Beedi stubs and Biscuit crumbs

The girl walks towards the waves by herself, still clutching the packet of biscuits, the water a little above her anklets.
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June, 2025

“We’d Stumbled Out the Door”: Reclaiming Female Subjectivity in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets

The author examines how Diane Seuss reinvents the traditional sonnet form to challenge patriarchal constructs.
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June, 2025

The Melon

when suddenly our dog swoops in like a hungry kestrel burrowing deep sniffing your sweat
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