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The Editorial Team on behalf of The Bangalore Review wishes all its readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
![Interview with Kyle Kouri](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/interview-470x140.jpg)
I took a piss about a month ago and I remembered art. It was in a bar bathroom just north of Houston on Ave A….
![Theodore](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/theodore-470x140.jpg)
Theodore Gabriel Watson awoke early on the day he was to unintentionally kill a fifteen-year-old white girl, feeling like a diseased mouse had crawled inside…
![A Cold Winter's Night](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/coldwinternight-470x140.jpg)
She laid there, in quiet repose, as though I might wake her from her slumber. All the energies in the world could perform no such…
![The Spider Story](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/spiderstory-470x140.jpg)
I A mature, female spider needs to know how to make proper webs. But spider A was still struggling. First, she was reluctant to make…
![Everything Happens While I Sleep](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/whileisleep-470x140.jpg)
The sand is wet
from the forgotten rain
that poured over the streets
and shop corners last night.
![One of Us](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/oneofus-470x140.jpg)
Somewhere in a town where time has died
and where the river does not speak,
I see you staring at the fishermen
![The Veldt by Ray Bradbury](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/readingroom-470x140.jpg)
Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.
![Christopher Hitchens: The Great Contrarian](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/hitchens-470x140.jpg)
Akshay Sreevatsa ponders over Christopher Hitchens and his book, Letters to a Young Contrarian
![To Wait and Not See Nothing: Tor Ulven’s Unheard Language](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ULVEN-470x140.jpg)
Atharva Panditon writes on Tor Ulven, the modernist Norwegian poet who has commanded respect and considerable influence over contemporary Norwegian poetry, and yet, hitherto remains largely unknown in English-language literature.
![Move Forward](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CHERRYCHAN-470x140.jpg)
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the opening night of Operap, the musical experiment. I am Coby Sunders, the producer of the show. I am also…
![The Myth and the Miserable](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gitanjali-470x140.jpg)
I was in love with a mythical creature for the longest time. I didn’t meet her by the sea; she wasn’t washed ashore by a…
![All the Love in the World](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rosen-470x140.jpg)
The year after she left, my mother visited our house in San Diego only twice. The first time, she came with a U-haul truck and…
![Unforgotten](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ghosh-470x140.jpg)
It was the day before Christmas in Calcutta. It was 1997, and the city, like its name, still retained much of its old world charm….