Crush by Richard Siken: capturing the violence and panic of love and longing
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Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler)
This free air, this wind that strikes me in the soul of the face leaving it troubled in an imitation of an anguished ever-new ecstasy, anew and always, every time the plunge into a bottomless thing into which I fall always ceaselessly falling until I die and achieve at last silence.
The past 6 months in books + currently reading
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Questioning our growing apathy and the bystander effect
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A unique blend of stories with exquisite prose.
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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo: an absolute masterpiece
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Book shopping in Delhi
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Bookstore rec: Sisters of the People (Delhi, Online)
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How to deal with the violence of language?
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What is love?
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Some books that I don't see mentioned here much
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Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante: the evolution of the lives of two girls and a nation
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May Wrap Up (short reviews)
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[poem] The Raincoat by Ada Limón
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Hemen Mazumdar - Untitled (A Dry Feast) (1894 - 1948)
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April Wrap Up
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Bookends or book stand recs?
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March Wrap Up [short review of each]
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Vinod Kumar Shukla will be receiving this year's Jnanpith Award
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When you chance upon your person (details in the body text)
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Raja Ravi Varma - Lady in the Moon Light (1889)
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Another favourite book propelled into my top 5
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February in short stories, poetry and some more
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