Issue 53: Spring 2021 Has Arrived!
Dear Readers,
In terms of the weather it seems we’ve skipped straight to summer, but never fear, The Puritan’s spring issue is finally here!
This issue’s fiction features “You'll dance, Miss Snub-nose” by Subimal Misra (translated by V. Ramaswamy), “The past catches up” by Hajera Khaja, and “Contre-jour” by Christine Lai.
In poetry, check out four poems by Galsan Tschinag (translated by Richard Hacken), “Memory is sleeping” by Sanna Wanni, “Sacred Loss” by Michelle Poirier Brown, “Ritual” by Nolan Natasha, “Invention of poetry” by Graeme Bezanson, “tattoo ideas” by Evelyna Ekoko-Kay, and “origin stories for a scar” by Kate Hargreaves.
In this season’s essays, explore Violet Pask’s essay “Genre and Justice: Interrogating Detective Fiction” and Dhana Musil’s essay “A Much Better Mother When I Write.”
In this issue’s interview section, read the conversation between Pasha Malla and Adnan Khan on writing and Kill the Mall. Then, check out Erín Moure and Klara du Plessis’s discussion of language, translingualism, and translation.
Finally, this issue’s reviews section features a review of Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch’s knot body by Cicely Belle Blain, a review of Maria Cichosz’s Cam & Beau by Kate Maddalena, and a review of Rebecca Salazar’s sulphurtongue by Trynne Delaney.
This issue will be the last issue for Fiction editor Adnan Khan and Essays editor Nellwyn Lampert. Adnan has been Fiction Editor since May 2020 and has curated some outstanding short stories. Nellwyn started with The Puritan in 2017 and has brought in countless excellent, thought-provoking essays. We’ll miss having them both on the team and we wish them all the very best on their future projects.
And with that we present Issue 53. We hope you enjoy our very latest.
All the best,
The Editors