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Literature
At 61 years, in the midst of a pandemic, Keith Fadelici turns his attention to a collection of Ray Bradbury’s novels & short stories on his bookshelves and inspects the author’s lasting legacy.
Creative Non-Fiction
2 APRIL is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain… What are the roots that..
Creative Non-Fiction
My son and I tried to save a baby bird on our walk together. At a first glance, all we could understand was, that it..
Book Reviews
Carole Mertz reviews A Raga for George Harrison, a collection of poems by Sharmagne Leland-St. John.
Creative Non-Fiction
Failure draws at my life like a sucking well under troubled water; therefore, every journey I’ve ever taken is likened to a desperate breath I..
Creative Non-Fiction
Last Thursday, I came as close as I ever have to buying a canoe. It had been a long and less than productive day, and..
Creative Non-Fiction
Colleen Maillet’s personal essay from the pandemic aims to alleviate the shame associated with substance abuse.
Creative Non-Fiction
You are scrolling through social media when you see a post by one of those activism pages, the type you like to follow but never..
Book Reviews
Maitreyee B. Chowdhury reviews Siddarth Dasgupta’s poetry collection, A Movable East.
Book Reviews
Dipali Taneja reviews Chandini Santosh’s new novel, Blood Brothers.
Creative Non-Fiction
This personal essay by Dina Hendawi explores the dilemma of feeling foreign everywhere, including the place we call ‘home.’
Book Reviews
A review of Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s “Sing of Life: Revisioning Tagore’s Gitanjali” by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
Book Reviews
A review of “Jayanta Mahapatra: A Reader” by Maitreyee Chowdhury.
Creative Non-Fiction
Damilola Oyedele’s essay explores language as both a barrier and a tether. Her accent and diction – influenced by the various Nigerian languages and dialects she speaks – shapes her interactions as an immigrant in the United States and South Africa, and tethers her to Nigeria, her home country.
Non-Fiction
The Yellow Notebook is from Aamer Hussein’s anthology, Restless. The book is a collage of fugitive fictions, reminiscences of friends, and personal essays which, when read in sequence, offer an unofficial picture of one writer’s private and public lives.
Memoirs
“I believe that everything that happens to me now goes back to 1915.” Araz Artinian says in a voiceover. In her documentary, The Genocide in..
Creative Non-Fiction
Although my mother could not control what I ate—at least, what I chose to gorge on while she worked—she could make me get up and..
Creative Non-Fiction
Sohra or Cherrapunjee—which we still fondly call the wettest place on earth—is my birthplace, where my ancestral home is, and though only tenants live in..
Editorial
We are proud to present the June Jazz Summer issue of The Bangalore Review as we celebrate the completion of 8 years of the magazine…
Literature
Playwright-poet Ashutosh Potdar’s questioning approach towards traditions and modernity gives his writing a nuanced and layered approach. We talk to him to know more about his thought process.
Book Reviews
Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950, is a portrait of resilience and a testament to humanity. The novel set in eastern India in the aftermath of the partition..
Non-Fiction
Long before air-conditioners were bought for our house in the coastal town of Puri, the dominant white noise during summers was that of the ceiling..
Non-Fiction
I stare out over the skyline of Mumbai. My nostrils flare as I inhale the scent of rain on the wind. Tiny droplets of sweat..
Book Reviews
Jagged Edges of Masculinity Anubha Yadav’s debut novel is a play of stereotypes and tags that constitute male upbringing, entitlement and survival in India. It’s..