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ISSUE 11: CONTRIBUTORS
Adele Gardner, Avra Margariti, David A. Hewitt, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Elaine Vilar Madruga, M. Bennardo, Mary Soon Lee, Phoebe Low, Qurat Dar, Timothy Bastek, Toshiya Kamei, Uma Menon & Wren Wallis. Cover art by Edward Hicks (1848).
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Amal Singh: Rudali
They have come to weep for those who can’t. Ramsingh Chaudhury’s haveli smells of cinnamon and incense, charred wood and pine oil, age and death. Ten women gather around the zamindar’s body lying still in the center of the hall, all in white, their eyes blank, their...
Indra Das: Excerpt from The Devourers
My part in this story began the winter before winters started getting warmer, on a full-moon night so bright you could see your own shadow on an unlit rooftop. It was under that moon—slightly smudged by December mist clinging to the streets of Kolkata—that I met a man...
Shobhana Kumar: Lessons in Mango Picking
It’s not just the announcement of summer. If you look close enough you can pick a thing or two about patience and then letting go. You know life can turn against you— how you can be plucked from your roots, young, weather it all and still remain remarkably...
Seo-Young Chu: Life 38
Under my desk, head against wall, limbs folded in heaps on the floor, I open my eyes. (My body, it seems, migrated here last night.) Fingers are tangled in cords and computer wires. In my dream, the dream from which I am still awaking, those same fingers are tangled...
Jennifer Crow: Fallen to Witches
The world catches its breath after harvest, ghosts of leaves drifting across the fields into heaps of tarnished gold, and the hunters ride out, shouts like weapons echoing sharp from the hills. How long I wait, cool evenings shivering against my skin, dreams curdling...
Interview: Mark James Russell
Mark James Russell is a writer, journalist and producer with 20 years experience in Korea and around Asia, reporting for such publications as the New York Times, Science, Newsweek, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. He has written two non-fiction books about Korean...
Interview: Glen Hirshberg
By Salik Shah Good Girls, the sequel to Glen Hirshberg's 2012 novel, Motherless Child, has just been published by Tor. Glen is also the author of two previous novels (The Snowman's Children and The Book of Bunk) and three story collections (The Two Sams, American...
Interview: Mary Anne Mohanraj
By Salik Shah Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins), The Stars Change (Circlet Press) and ten other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six...
Interview: Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and of the critically-acclaimed The Violent Century (2013). His latest novel is Central Station...
Asian Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: A Round Table Discussion
With Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang and Priya Sharma By Ajapa Sharma & Salik Shah “The question of how distinct subjective experiences shape aesthetic choices has been of constant concern to us at Mithila Review. This “Asian SF”...
Asian SF – Double Issue (July/August): Open to Submissions Through July 2016
Mithila Review’s Issue 5 plus 6 will come out as a special Asian SF double issue in August 2016. We have received excellent fiction, poetry and non-fiction submissions, but are still in the process of reading, editing and soliciting new work and reprints. For writers...
Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016)
Recommendations from Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others What are some of the most successful examples of Asian SF—speculative fiction by an Asian author or those with a meaningful connection with Asia? Based on...
Naru Dames Sundar: Moirae
Moirae Naru Dames Sundar I. Atropos, in the ink-stained night, Shears forged from time-foam Buried in the light cone's shadow. Lachesis, counting star-seeds, Trapped in bound infinity, Unspooling the sea of aeons. Clothos, all-mother, weaving, And from the loom, Light...
Anil Menon: The Speculative Ramayana
It is not clear when we humans began to exchange long bursts of sound for entertainment, but there is a good chance the very first such exchange, the first story, was a love story. And it probably went something like this: Ug the caveman falls in love, there are...
Turning the Lens to Asia
With the launch of our new issue, we have become aware of two things. One, that we are extremely lucky to be part of such an active, open and diverse community of wonderful readers, writers and scholars from around the world. We remain grateful to our amazing readers,...