BE HERE NOW

Prose by Elaine Nichols Art by Keira Innes Florian saw the boy, who was supposed to have already left, just as he was about to pass from the suburban area into the main part of town on the way to his cousin’s. He was sitting on the low wall outside the run-down, leaf-covered play park

Nowhere Man

Prose by Elaine Nichols Art by Monica Feng He’d have asked her to lunch sometime if she hadn’t walked into the food court and queued up in front of the char siu fan place perhaps ten metres in front of his table, pretending not to see him, whilst he coughed into his ramen in a

Iphis on E

Prose by Hawthorne Nyberg Art by Nicole Ma (A Bending of the Metamorphoses after Ali Smith) I. Iphis woke late Wednesday, cast her eye around for her glasses, found them on the floor between the nightstand and the Durex box, laid back down.  Bed was a tangle of blanket, legs, a discarded sweater scrawled over

The Great Long Crawl Towards Wormwood

Poetry by Samantha Chan Art by Brian Lee As kids we all used to kneel around snails and ants and  worms. We rummaged in school bags for bottle caps,  mini smarties boxes, pencil cases–– any little container to collect little creatures, because while the concrete prickled our already scabby knees, a thing being alive was

A Haibun for June

Poetry by Millicent Sharman Art by Maxine Gray In the freshly felt air there is a weight of warm humidity, thicker than the tiredness, thinner than the lifelong string holding us four together. I see everything in orange: the ice cream in the airport vending machine; the fifty-yen coin pinched between my fingers; time, though

The Intricacies of Indian Experience: A Survey of Post-Colonial Commentary through Transpositional Adaptation in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice

Essay by Sim Deol Art by Margaret Xun In her Bollywood-inspired Austen adaptation, Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice reveals that even the most English of narratives can be transformed in order to celebrate cultures that have been affected by British colonization. Austen’s original text, Pride and Prejudice, is deeply entrenched in a colonial context, even

The Feeble Feminine: Cleopatra’s Transformation into a Passive Woman and the Defense of Louise de Kérouaille in John Dryden’s All for Love

Essay by Sim Deol Art by Adri Marcano Cleopatra has come to be a figure often regarded in popular culture as beautiful, intelligent, and above all, powerful. This understanding of her character is consistent with her representation in Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. On the other hand, Dryden’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s narrative, All for Love,