Year: 2026
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Why The Hemlock Journal’s Editorial Feedback Matters!
Submissions for Issue 10 are going to open on February 1st, 2026 and we think everyone should know this before submitting to The Hemlock Journal. With Issue 09, The Hemlock…
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Cancel Culture: Digital Vigilantes or a Legit Check on Power?
I’ll never forget the time I jokingly called a friend’s sandwich “postmodern art”—and woke up to ten angry emojis and a group chat full of “unfriending” threats. Welcome to cancel…
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Same-sex Sharing Same Suppressed Sentiments: Queer undercurrents and the subversive potential for female kinships in Jane Austen’s Fiction
The paper aims to explore the queer undercurrents and female kinships, especially homosocial bonds spanning across the works of Jane Austen. The queer potential has been recognized in female friendships…
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The Fragmented Self: Notes from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa’s magnum opus, The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego), is, in its amorphous form, a diary, a novel, and an artefact of fragmentation. The poet himself called it…
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Deadline Extended!
If you were planning to Submit a piece of Fiction for The Hemlock Journal’s ongoing contest in Collaboration with Remington Review, there’s a sigh of relief for you. We have…
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‘Archeology’ by Ronald Fink
The ceramic Aztec mask mounted on my apartment wall is one of the few physical reminders I have of my Chilean uncle, who died in exile in Mexico City almost…
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Unboxing The Hemlock Journal’s Issue 09
Here’s the first ever look of The Hemlock Journal’s Issue 09 in Print. Natalie Gandhi, a poet and one of the contributors of Issue 09 unboxed the Issue and recorded…
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Amita Basu in Conversation with Sangeetha Vallat — Author of ‘Platform Ticket’
Sangeetha Vallat, a seeker of stories, is the author of Platform Ticket (Penguin Random House, 2025), a memoir of her ticketing days in the Railways. She is passionate about books,…
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László Krasznahorkai: A Nobel for the End of the World and the Power of Literature
On 9 October 2025, the Swedish Academy announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, in recognition of a body of work described…
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