Year: 2025
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‘Excerpt from Memoir: I Will Burn While I Shine’ by Michael Amatulli
The following morning I rose from between two parked vehicles, still high from my near-overdose. I slowly walked in the direction of the train station and the paid underground bathrooms.…
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Review of Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’
SUBMISSION OPEN for Fiction Writing Contest. Win Cash Prizes and Dual Publication with The Hemlock Journal and Remington Review. Click Here to Know More. “Where do old birds go to die? Why don’t dead ones fall like stones from…
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‘How a Libertarian Paradise Tried (and failed) to Survive on “Bear” Necessities’ by JB Polk
Once upon a time in a land far, far away… That’s how fairy tales typically start. But the story you are about to read is not a fairy tale.…
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Review of Paulo Coelho’s ‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’
‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’ was so close to my heart. Every time I gathered the courage to read a few pages, I found myself breathing…
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‘Anton Perfume’ by Kevin B
SUBMISSION OPEN for Fiction Writing Contest. Win Cash Prizes and Dual Publication with The Hemlock Journal and Remington Review. Click Here to Know More. For a few moments in the…
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Fiction Writing Contest: The Hemlock Journal × Remington Review
THE HEMLOCK JOURNAL in collaboration with REMINGTON REVIEW is excited to announce FICTION CONTEST, 2025! Writers win not only cash prizes, but the rare honour of dual publication in both…
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Vision, Voice, and Violence in Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ by Anikait Chakraborty
“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the…
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Booker Prize 2025: David Szalay wins for ‘Flesh’
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ wins the Booker Prize 2025 Congratulations to David Szalay, Hungarian-British author, who won the Booker Prize 2025 for his novel, ‘Flesh’. The award was presented to…
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Aditi Dasgupta Interview: ‘I would be a fool to define love as a feeling’
Aditi Dasgupta was among the poets whose poems were shortlisted from The Poetry Writing Contest 2025 organized by The Hemlock Journal. Her poem ‘Plum Cake in My Chest’ gained 5th…
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Review of Asha Ponnachan’s ‘Airport Stories’
In her book Airport Stories, Asha Ponnachan turns the familiar chaos of airports into a quiet theatre of hidden lives, often not explored by passengers or the outside world. Each…
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