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The Bangalore Review

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
March, 2020

Checkpoint 104

In the dusty, windy hills above Bethlehem, she drove alone along the lonely by-pass road leading north from Wadi al-Arayis toward East Jerusalem. It was..
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  • Poetry
March, 2020

Grandma

Grandma moves sunflower-faced in the kitchen, her hands breaking like leaves. Outside, deer eat the flowers. Long stretches of land where we search for golf-balls,..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
March, 2020

They’ll say it was an Honest Mistake

“Yo, J, Got a light?” I pulled the convenient store lighter from my pocket with finger cutoff gloves. My nails were blackened from the shop,..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
March, 2020

In Gresham

Temperature hit one hundred, making our third floor apartment close to like Hell. I spent the day with Ben in the playground, leaving him under..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
December, 2019

Literary Shorthand: What Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” Can Teach Readers About a Useful Writing Technique

Vincent Larson offers this fun, exploratory literary criticism on Hemingway's work, intended to help writers discover a type of literary notation that they might use in their own work.
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
December, 2019

Re-Thinking Thoreau: Between the Lines of His Life and Work

“Re-Thinking Thoreau” is John Roman's attempt to correct the legacy of Thoreau and explores how Henry was able to surmount his “issues' during a time when medical attention and prescription drugs were not available.
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Running

The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

YOU UPEND THE WORLD: IN MEMORIAM, TULSA RACE MASSACRE 1921

Memory is the sense of loss and loss pulls us after it.Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping The air tonight invites the dense warren of smoke from your..
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  • Fiction
  • Flash Fiction
December, 2019

The Almost Mother

The Almost Mother sits with me on a park bench, smiling to herself, humming a lullaby, while she looks for children to trip. A strange..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
December, 2019

Summers of Solitude

I grew up afraid of asking questions, afraid of being curious. It still affects the way I live. Any time I crossed that line as..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Live Fast or Die

This is a perpetual mourning poem. If you were told to livefast, you’ll be aghast at life’s stretch,a thing too long for haiku, sinceelegies have..
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  • Fiction
  • Short Fiction
December, 2019

Rumsey’s Watch

Walter looked at his watch, the warm sun reflecting across its silver blue dial into his eyes. The second hand appeared to be moving in..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Meaningless Terabytes and Featherless Wings

All this contradictory newsobviously spewsdigitized perplexities of truth: clattering electrons andcross-eyed geesesparkly and smartly sneezing liberal this, conservative that; flying smack-dabbit into windowstranslucent glass walls..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Seeing You Even When You’re Gone

Time will bring relief, you all have lied   –Edna St. Vincent Millay On the freeway, a cop cruiser pulls beside me in the hiss of..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Wild Turkey

A rafter in the back woods:five toms and eighteen hens,a remnant of the Pilgrim myththat predicated genocide. Bobbing heads and fanned tails,almost our national bird...
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

the loved wrong of hey alfred prufrock

let us go then you and Iwhen the evening has wretchedly passed and diedlike cremations sanctified far gone unstablelet us so through curtained half-perverted sweetsthe..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

Anybody’s Guess

A jar of sea salt rests on the table     Of the woman whose home is at the edge      of the pavement in middle Vermont.Close..
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  • Poetry
December, 2019

On Top of the Game

I mean like this morning.While streaming 24/7.Somebody’s hijab blew off. Tagging the rotunda of intersectionality.Shooting the pier of othering.The quality of the rip unsurpassed. An..
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  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2019

The Nocilla Trilogy: The End of Literature?

Someone sometime said their paintings represent the end of painting; I think it was Ad Reinhardt. Years before, Piet Mondrian sought to be the world’s..
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  • Nature & Environment
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2019

Bird Feeder Simulation

At our house in the woods, we often put out a bird feeder in winter once the bears hibernate. This year we were late about..
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  • Cinema
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2019

Fantastic Men and Where to Find Them

Lucy Mills writes about the representation of masculinity in Hollywood films and how it affects the representation of other genders.
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  • Creative Non-Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
November, 2019

So Much New York!

Marie-Laure and I frequently met in the Manhattan School of Music hallways as we staggered out of practice rooms at closing time.  We were both..
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The Bangalore Review
Vol. XIII | Issue 5 | February 2025

ISSN 2770-0828

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