An Interview With Elif Batuman, The 'Underdog' Mayor of Kathmandu, and Literary Emulations
Volume 45 Issue 6 — October 28, 2022
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Featured Pieces
In Features, Arts editor Cecilia Barron B’24 talks life and literature with acclaimed author Elif Batuman (of The Idiot and Either/Or fame). “There's something kind of dispiriting about realizing that you're going to become part of the thing that people in the future are going to want to rebel from.” Read here.
In World, contributing writer Indigo Mudbhary B’26 explores her Nepalese family’s privilege and the curious story of a rapper-turned-mayor. “While perusing the Kathmandu Post in my desperate attempt to get up to date on Nepali politics, I discovered that there had recently been a mayoral election, and a rapper named Balen had won,” she writes. Read here.
In Ephemera, Megan Lu brings us the two beautiful watercolors above: “Bitsy's Bread Basket” & “Mercutio's Mozzarella.” Link to website version.
In Literary, section editor Tierra Sherlock and staff writers Faith Griffiths and Lily Lustig emulate literary icons like Diana Khoi Nguyen, Anne Carson, Peter Markus in pieces that bend form and theme. Read here, here, and here,
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Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Metro
A Shrouded Anatomy: Reproductive justice and the long fight for bodily autonomy — by Keeling Gaughan B’25
Feats
My Mother, the Plot Device: On dead mothers and their portrayal in media — by Anonymous
NOISE HEAT: Stereolab reinvents an invented reinvention, inventively — by Kian Braulik B’24
Week in Review
Week in Halloween — by Masha Breeze B’22.5 & Nora Mathews B’24
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“Fashion”: Apparel— by Joshua Koolik B’24
Dear Indy
Dear Indy Presents: Demons — by Annie Stein B’24
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