On Interracial Relationships, The Sunken Place and Middle-Class Whiteness
“I started noticing all the times when my Dad and siblings were the only people of colour in a social group.” — Zoe Jane Patterson weaves personal experience with an analysis of Jordan Peele’s film Get Out to talk about race.
The Incel Pond
This poem was inspired by the April 23 events this year in Toronto, where a man who belonged to a group called INCEL drove into crowds downtown.
The Eyes of Those in The Bear Clan: A Review of the Short Story Fleur
The natures of various characters in this short story by Louise Erdrich are embodied by the creatures they master, writes Zoe Jane Patterson in this fiction analysis.
Spilling
A surreal take on loneliness and longing.
ambergris entry four, dated 7 may, 2018
A young Nepali man falls for a Czech tourist in his hometown. Read his diary
Don't lie to me, mother
A poem on how women inherit and pass down patriarchal rigidity.
Out of the corner of my eyes, pt. 2
New fiction by Chiran Raj Pandey.
Notes on Kendrick Lamar, Moby-Dick, and the Margins
A clever, surprising intertextual analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN album and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick as tales of outsiders.
Paris
Tzy Jiun Tan observes her temporary city in this new poem.
Ghent, Belgium
A poem celebrating the quirks of the small Belgian city.
Four Pink Songs
Tzy Jiun Tan's series of poems reflect on beauty standards, female pain and Asian womanhood.
Alphabet for the Second Language
Tzy Jiun Tan recontorts the alphabet to free herself from a colonial tongue.
bird by bird
Calling depression a “wolf”, Vamika Sinha reflects on a turbulent adolescence.
lotion
In a rhythmic poem like a lullaby, Vamika Sinha takes a jab at her own rebellious mental health.
Porte de Choisy
In this personal memoir, Vamika Sinha reflects on navigating life in Paris as a foreigner, walking through its Chinatown district.
le marais
An outsider walking through the streets of Paris’ trendy Marais district.
Why Write About Fashion?
This article marks the introduction of a new Postscript column called Style Odyssey which will feature critical and creative discourse on various aspects of fashion as an art, concept and industry.