The Hammock Newsletter: Edition 4

Some great news to start off this week. Manoj Rupda’s collection I Named my Sister Silence, translated by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, was named on the JCB Prize Longlist for 2023. Having run a story from the collection, An Elephant Eaten Alive, in the magazine a few months ago, this was delightful news whose afterglow makes us feel like we’re on the right track. 

As the year speeds by, we continue to round up some of the pieces we’ve put out in recent months that you may have missed. Dilsher Dhillon’s Time and Its Conjugations was a crisp, quick read that explores the missed opportunities and potentialities that youth is charged with. In a different vein, but also exploring the potentiality of youth, was Sumitra Mattai’s essay, Murder She Wrote, about how a Jamaican dancehall song was a formative part of teenage friendship and identity for an Indian-origin girl in New Jersey, illuminating the complications of defining ourselves in a globalised era. 

While you open those up in tabs that may or may not be clicked on, why not check out a few more book recommendations from our post-apocalyptic ecological fiction list. Or if that seems too dark, perhaps some modern masterpieces that explore the art world? 

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