![Nadine Gordimer: A Tribute](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NADINEGORDIMER-470x140.jpg)
Arul Gaspar pays tribute to the late writer, Nadine Gordimer, who was an agent for political and social commitment
![Dighir Pare](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DIGHIRPARE-470x140.jpg)
On certain nights there are nightmares, dull, blinding and dramatic. Every time the scene is the same, I run down the Sukleshwar ghat on the…
![You and You and the White Sofa](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/madeleine-470x140.jpg)
While the view was magnificent, no one had enjoyed looking out the window of apartment 2G of 110 East End Avenue in several years. While…
![Luis](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LUIS-470x140.jpg)
We experienced our first hurricane in that house on Frangipani Street, and luckily, you were too little to remember any of it. Hurricane Luis was…
![Fugue](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Thinned blood gushed from the wound. His stomach a mash-tun, his head spun madly. God fucking…shit Ruined! That was the only thing from Berlin A…
![Pandavas](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pandavas-470x140.jpg)
We stood in a row, I do not remember who led,
Who brought up the rear,
But the fireflies raged,
Lighting up the forest, the velvet rocks
![Bhasha Dibosh](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bhashadibosh-470x140.jpg)
every night you ask why I love you
and every night I fail to answer.
Tonight, on Bhasha Dibosh,
I have an answer.
![Farmers' Market](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DAMASCUS-470x140.jpg)
The children double-time,
surrendering keffiyahs and hijabs
to the breeze.
They will not make it.
![The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde](https://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.