Hungry City
A sprawling essay engaging with ramen, New York, Teju Cole’s fiction, and hyphenated identities, by Vamika Sinha.
i want to wear a qípáo too
“culture-repairers don’t want to read just dead white men or / wear them—so make this qípáo’s slit awful high!” – in a work of jazz poetry, Samantha Neugebauer thinks through the dilemmas of globalization and cultural appropriation.
The Question of the Authentic Indian
In a striking short story titled Out on Main Street, the writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo deconstructs the idea of the authentic Indian identity, countering it with the notion of hybridity.