A Note from the Editors: Issue 36
The High Priestess / A Főpapnő
Hungarian poet, anarchist, and occultist Laszlo Aranyi offers a richly political poem, with an English translation by Gabor Gyukics
Androgyny Can Reinvigorate Modest Fashion
New in style odyssey, Ayah Rashid explores the confluences of androgyny and modest fashion
Spent Force
A rhythmic romp of a poem by Dana Miller
Two Poems
Writer and eco-artist Amelia L. Williams magnifies insect, plant, and cell movements to explore the trials and successes of the body
Not All Productivity Is Toxic
Paired with Godefroy Dronsart's audio art and drawing on Marxist theory, our Arts & Culture editor Tom Abi Samra unpacks the desire for productivity: toxic capitalism or self-fulfillment?
Accidental Excellence
Haiku columnist Louise Gerodias observes the expectations held for little children's success
Give Us This Day
A poetic new short story written within the hallows of the church
Two Haiku
New in our haiku column, Roy Duffield writes of the ambitions of Malawi and Uganda
250 Seconds in 12 Hours
A picture that is a composite of multiple photographs taken over roughly 12 hours - all while the artist sits and reads about the word “excel”
Sitting Down with Dubai Rapper KAFV
An interview with Dubai-based rapper KAFV, talking about the UAE's hip-hop scene, sampling, foreign cinema, and more
Data Playground
Everything saved and stored, recorded, analysed, backed up. A vast playground of ‘data’. Are you having fun?
Two Poems
Former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Margaret Rozga rebels with form and nature in these two poems
Aesthetician Tells You Why Artists Need Team Vitality
Xia Chengan examines how collectivism functions in Chinese corporate culture
TRIBUTE
Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf pays homage to possibly the biggest icon of the 21st century and queen of selfies: Kim Kardashian
If Young Metro Don't Trust You, It’s Not Nice: Producer Tags, Ego, & Excellence
Multimedia editor Garreth Chan explores the phenomenon of producer tags in music
.xlsx / Unconcatenate
Poems spun from Microsoft Excel's programming language, marrying the dialects of poetry and code
Two Poems
"It was the first time I allowed myself / to recognize the beauty of a man" – poet and professor Joe Mills ponders the fame of Bill Robinson and Mikhail Baryshnikov
Desert Cast: Towards an Identity
The new architectural exhibition at Sharjah's 1971 Design Space, featuring three Kuwait-based designers, hopes to discover a more authentic local design identity, one that is rooted in the region's rich history
Unanchored Line
The same forces that shaped the earth also shape Seana Reilly's imagery, which alludes to human efforts to understand, classify, mentally contain, and physically subdue the natural world