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Time's Best Jewel
by Leeya Mehta

“Vivaldo dreamed he was running, running, running, through a country he had always known, but could not now remember, a rocky country.” – from ‘Another Country’, by James Baldwin.

I am writing this in a rocky country, another country, to which I arrived three days ago, to visit dear friends who I had not seen for a long time. I, like many of you, have been reading fr Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 02, 2025 11:04 • Tags: baldwin100-anothercountry

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Brotherless Night

by V.V. Ganeshananthan (Goodreads Author)

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The Politics of Language

by David Beaver

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Like Being Alive Twice

by Dharini Bhaskar

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“I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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