Her op-ed/essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The White Review, and Guernica among other places. Her second novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch and Ms Militancy, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Gypsy Goddess. Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, India. Currently Writer in Residence at the University of York and Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Capildeo's newest work is Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, forthcoming 2021). Vahni Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. We stand with the people of India, in diaspora and at home like them, everything will be remembered.Īamir Aziz is a poet, actor and activist based in Mumbai. All money raised was donated to a range of community-based, mutual aid initiatives based on regularly updated guidance from organisers and mutual aid workers in India. Organised by Ignota, the87Press and The White Review, the event featured readings by Aamer Aziz, Vahni Capildeo, Meena Kandasamy, Bhanu Kapil, Ashwani Kumar, Pratyusha, Nat Raha, Nisha Ramayya, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Himali Singh Soin, Bisakh Som and Preti Taneja (reading from the work of Karithka Naïr). On 5 June 2021, poets, writers and artists came together in solidarity, in grief and in love with the people of India. Everything will be remembered.’ – Aamir Aziz
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Kleist’s writing, which I have long struggled to get into, has at last opened itself up to me. Stefan Zweig, the early-twentieth-century Austrian writer, wrote a book entitled Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon, which suggests something of his character and his kindred spirits. Before that death, however, he managed to produce a small body of work – his complete works, including letters, fits snuggle into a single two-thousand-page volume – which time has only elevated in stature.įor Kleist did not fit in within his world. Goethe famously snubbed him, and Kleist’s biography tends to be haunted by its ending – he died in a suicide pact at age 34. However, it took a long time for the world to get used to him. Heinrich von Kleist is one of the most extraordinary German writers of an age when German writing was already shaping world literature. The book was so adorable and queer and so fun and fast-paced. Like kissing, cuddling, getting to know each other without any pretend or acts. He shows so much vulnerability and there are so many amazing softer scenes. But not in this book! I’m so glad I decided to read this gem! Even though the romance is constantly getting interrupted by demon attacks (very frustrating!), the romance is definitely not thin anymore! I love the way you could follow how their relationship deepens and how Alec is worried about his lack of experience, but still NEEDS to take things further. When Cassandra Clare originally wrote The Mortal Instruments she had to hold back on love scenes between Magnus and Alec to not risk getting the books be considered ”inappropriate”, which I now realize in hindsight is why the relationship between them felt a bit thin and not so engaging at times. It’s an additional book to the Mortal Instruments series telling the swash-buckling romantic adventures of Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood on the vacation mentioned in City of Fallen Angels (the 4th book in the series). Before reading this book, I actually thought I was ready to leave the Shadowhunter realm, but oh no, this book sure drew me right back in again. |