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Leaving – Yin F Lim

Glossy lips, upturned in a cheesy grin. This is what I see when I think about the morning I left my country. The lips of a Ronald McDonald statue, painted red to match its garish hair and its clown’s outfit. Broad lips stretched into a smile that seemed much too bright under soulless eyes. I…

COMFORT FOODS // A History of Goulash – Maryana Lucia Vestic

My earliest memories of goulash are full of warm, satisfying sensations—soft, chewy egg noodles draped in thick brown gravy and big chunks of beef adorned with a few key ingredients like green pepper, onion, and paprika.

An interview with Bex Saunders

In our conversation we discuss how Bex began her photographic journey and the point of photography, the ways in which food can become subversive and suggestive, and the My Chemical Romance reunion.

The Red Daisies of Prague Spring – Garrett Zecker

An exploration of feminist indulgence, excess, and gratification via the colour red in Věra Chytilová’s Czech New Wave masterpiece Daisies (1966).

TWO POEMS – Alexandre Ferrere

I had
one chance out of zero,
but spent a youth chasing
what I am still not.

REVIEW – The Liars’ Asylum (Stories) by Jacob M. Appel – Vanessa Braganza

Appel turns his professional interest in the workings of the human mind to a narrative exploration of the reasons we tell lies.

ONE POEM – Lauren Bender

points for you if you are boss of the building, every lock
warm at your fingertips, every door’s soft click
yours as it shuts, every window with your face
reflected in it.