Lonely Planet Guide
In the form of a travel list of New York restaurants, Vamika Sinha's new fiction piece focuses on the nuances of love, sex, dating and loneliness in the Big Apple.
When I Get Home: Solange's Cartography
In When I Get Home, a title itself implying a road and destination tied to self, Solange sketches a journey, maps out the paths that have led her to this exact moment as both artist and woman and black being.
D-Natural Blues
A 50-year-old Italian jazz guitarist gambles with a group of weed-smokers in this gripping short story about middle-age nothingness.
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.
I'd Love It If We Made It
“Hip-hop seems to be our protest music du jour but for another generation, it was rock ‘n’ roll” – Vamika Sinha unpacks The 1975’s songs as modern cultural commentary in the form of millennial rock music
movie
Inspired by the Tom Misch song “Movie”, a love poem by Vamika Sinha.
new york
A romp of a poem showcasing the sounds, noise, music of New York City.
The Color Blue
Vamika Sinha weaves personal memoir with music criticism, jazz writing and New York history in this hybrid essay.
While You Were Singing
A short story about a murder, two lovers, a Syrian drunk, and a jazz-singing policeman.