Springs of Love: Where Digital Art Meets the Heart of Brussels
There is something quietly radical about standing in the Cour de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles and holding up your phone to find a sculpture blooming in the air before you. No plinth, no velvet rope, no hushed gallery attendant. Just you, the cobblestones, and a shimmering, abstract form suspended in augmented reality, whispering about…
Critical Analysis: Ehsaas Jazbati by Babita Rani
In her poignant collection Ehsaas Jazbati, North Indian poet Babita Rani navigates the complex architecture of human emotion, striking a delicate balance between aesthetic lyrical beauty and the heavy, profound sense of loss that accompanies the passage of time.
Five Years On: The Asian Review Returns to the Word
After five years and 85,000 daily readers, The Asian Review strips away all images, adopts black-on-cream minimalism, and mandates 900-word minimums. Our globally trademarked black logo signals permanence: we’re desensitising readers from image-focused clicking, resensitising them to sustained thought. Not algorithm-chasing, but resistance training for attention itself. Literary culture demands depth.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey: A Meditation on Humanity from Above
Harvey’s Booker-winning novella transcends plot, offering sixteen hypnotic orbits of Earth through astronauts’ eyes. Like Virginia Woolf in space, it’s a philosophical meditation where perspective shifts like Las Meninas—challenging, beautiful, rewarding rereads. In 136 pages, Harvey captures humanity’s cosmic insignificance and profound meaning simultaneously. Utterly transcendent.
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