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Farah Ahamed
Farah Ahamed’s short stories and essays have been published in PloughsharesThe Mechanics’ Institute Review, and The Massachusetts Review, amongst others. Her non-fiction anthology Period Matters, on menstruation experiences in South Asia, is forthcoming from Pan Macmillan, India. She is currently working on a novel, Days without Sun which is about friendship and survival and follows Amanullah, a traditional maker of sweets in the backstreets of Lahore.

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Queen Victoria in the Basement

Fiction

August 2021

Farah Ahamed

Fiction

August 2021

Dear Mr Chairman,   Sir,   Yesterday, after I switched on the spotlight so that you could see the Queen properly, you covered your...

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feature

October 2012

Pressed Up Against the Immediate

Rye Dag Holmboe

feature

October 2012

The author Philip Pullman recently criticised the overuse of the present tense in contemporary literature, a criticism he stretched...

poetry

January 2014

Three New Poems

Antjie Krog

poetry

January 2014

Antjie Krog was born and grew up in the Free State province of South Africa. She became editor of...

Interview

January 2015

Interview with Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Scott Esposito

Interview

January 2015

Instructions: Take the high modernist and early postmodernist experimentalism of Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Move...

 

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