By the turn of the 20th century, “sketching from life” had become such a popular literary form that the editors...
Short Stories
Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim came to me rather unremarkably. In the dead of Canada’s fierce winter in January 2017, I...
Asymptote's Summer issue presents new writing from 27 countries. An exciting journey through stories and poems with master story-tellers and...
FLASHBACK A look at the history of modern Burmese literature from The Atlantic's February 1958 issue. It was only in...
By Aminah Sheikh Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? I write to express myself, and there...
Under Hassan Rouhani’s less repressive regime, female authors are starting to see their books in print, and daring to dream...
By Rajat Chaudhuri Short stories? Who writes short stories these days? Aren’t we reminded time and again that publishers are no...
Sentenced to a Honeymoon Nachiketa was an odd sort of a fellow, an eccentric. Sleeping inside a mosquito-net made him...
By Moazzam Sheikh Santokh Singh Dhir’s Merian Saras Kahaniyan is a delightful little book. Through the phrase ‘a delightful little...
Arunava Sinha’s 'The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told' comes with a caveat. In his introduction, he writes that the short...
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