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Writing in Urdu was a dream Aamer Hussein thought not come true. But then it did.

Peter Kalu gets lost in an essay

I haven’t even passed my Life in the UK test yet, so what do I know?

Unlike the other carnivals I’d been to this year, Vincy Mas relied wholly on intuition

“The scissors fluttered towards your ear and, suddenly, you were a boy again.”

There is always another door behind the door

How Butler’s fictional dystopia has become an accurate predictor for the future of human nature

An unseen author dictates a young, vulnerable man to drink poison

How to build a monument without insulting anyone

A gift to the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising