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Mahvesh Murad

Mahvesh Murad is a book critic and recovering radio show host living in Karachi, Pakistan. She currently hosts the podcast Midnight in Karachi on Tor.com and writes for multiple publications. You can find her on Twitter @mahveshm or at www.mahveshmurad.com.


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2 Sep 2024
Fiction
Eyeteeth 
By: Emma Johnson-Rivard
The corpsemongers down on Echo are selling human teeth again, little pearls of calcium passed hand to palm like benediction, and that means the pilot has to go down and check for eyeteeth.
Poetry
Veiling the Statues 
By: Raven Jakubowski
It was all the statues, all those human, inhuman faces, looking at us
Poetry
Inheritance 
By: Elis Montgomery
but synthBlooms cost / too.pretty.a.penny...
Reviews
Monday: The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar 
By: Electra Pritchett
Wednesday: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal 
By: Rachel Cordasco
Friday: This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings 
By: Ian J. Simpson
Read Issue
Issue 26 Aug 2024
Azimuth, Editorials, Non-Fiction
A Hugo Award - And More! 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Poetry
The Final Trick 
By: Angela Liu
Poetry
My Favorite Taiwanese Folktale 
By: Caroline Hung
Articles, Non-Fiction
Africanfuturism Beyond the Future 
By: Jenna Hanchey
Columns, Non-Fiction
Science Fiction is an Intellectual Technology 
By: Ada Palmer
Critical Friends, Podcasts
Critical Friends Episode 12: Canon-Building with Abigail Nussbaum 
By: Aishwarya Subramanian and Dan Hartland
Reviews
Monday: From the Belly by Emmett Nahil 
By: E. C. Barrett
,
Wednesday: Rose/House by Arkady Martine 
By: Vanessa Jae
,
Friday: Technical Slip: Collected Stories by John Wyndham 
By: Octavia Cade
Read Issue
Issue 19 Aug 2024
Poetry
One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr 
By: Jonathan Olfert
Poetry
The Nameless Woman 
By: Austin Dewar
Art, Fiction
BRIDE / BUTCHER / DOE 
By: Lowry Poletti
Art by: Max Banshees
Reviews
Monday: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville 
By: Phoenix Scholz
,
Wednesday: Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi 
By: Aran Ward Sell
,
Friday: The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo 
By: Tina S. Zhu
Read Issue
Issue 12 Aug 2024
Poetry
Kin 
By: R. S. Saha
Poetry
Letter From a Hot Air Balloon 
By: Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
Fiction
The Problem With Feelin’ Flo-Jo’s Glory Pose 
By: Aurelius Raines II
Reviews
Monday: Moonbound by Robin Sloan 
By: Christian P. Haines
,
Wednesday: The Singularity by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel 
By: Areeb Ahmad
,
Friday: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang 
By: Racheal Chie
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Issue 5 Aug 2024
Poetry
The Blacksmith’s Box of Haunted Memories 
By: Alicia Hilton
Poetry
The Same Fur Coat 
By: Sonya Taaffe
Fiction
The Wilding Year 
By: Jamie M. Boyd
Azimuth
Open Fiction Submissions Window October 1st 
By: Aigner Loren Wilson
Azimuth, Editorials
Call for Editors: Articles Editor 
By: Gautam Bhatia
Reviews
Monday: Interview With the Vampire Season 2 
By: Abigail Nussbaum
,
Wednesday: Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Friday: Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Volume 2 edited by Alex Woodroe with Matt Blairstone 
By: Vivian Wagner
Read Issue
Issue 29 Jul 2024
Azimuth
Call for Volunteer Fiction First Readers 
By: Aigner Loren Wilson
Fiction
Him beneath the water, whom I love 
By: Alex Sandground
Fiction
Cicadas, and Their Skins 
By: Avra Margariti
Poetry
Body Revolt 
By: Casey Aimer
Poetry
The Quickening 
By: Rachel Pittman
Poetry
Bird For A Blood-Filled Mouth 
By: C. C. Rayne
Articles, Non-Fiction
Fetal Imagery and the Maternal in Science Fiction 
By: Zoe L. Tongue
Reviews
Monday: Invaginies by Joe Koch 
By: Zachary Gillan
,
Wednesday: Mouth by Puloma Ghosh 
By: Audrey R. Hollis
,
Friday: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase 
By: Sinclair Adams
Read Issue
Issue 15 Jul 2024
Art, Fiction
Pelt 
By: Steven Archer
Art by: delila
Poetry
The Abstract Maker 
By: Leyla Guirand
Poetry
The Languages of Birds 
By: Mary Soon Lee
Reviews
Monday: A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock 
By: Octavia Cade
,
Wednesday: Stolen Hours and Other Curiosities by Manjula Padmanabhan 
By: Sneha Pathak
,
Friday: The Book of Witches edited by Jonathan Strahan 
By: Tristan Beiter
Read Issue
Issue 8 Jul 2024
Fiction
Cold Comfort 
By: Louis Inglis Hall
Poetry
Panikos Revisited 
By: Elizabeth R. McClellan
Poetry
Eidetic 
By: J. Deery Wray
Reviews
Monday: Stardust: Cinematic Archives from the End of the World by Hannah Goodwin 
By: M. L. Clark
,
Wednesday: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed 
By: Dan Hartland
,
Friday: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig 
By: Eric Primm
Read Issue
Issue 1 Jul 2024
Fiction
The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault) 
By: K. A. Wiggins
Poetry
The Past Is a Foreign Country 
By: Rachel Rodman
Poetry
Why is the forest lonely? 
By: Pacella Chukwuma- Eke
Reviews
Monday: Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 
By: Andy Sawyer
,
Wednesday: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das 
By: Nileena Sunil
,
Friday: The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 
By: Bill Capossere
Read Issue
Issue 24 Jun 2024
Poetry
The hunt for the murderous monkey has ended; 
By: Olga Maslova
Art, Poetry
Gold Foil Experiment 
By: R. Christopher Aversa
Art by: Teo Nalani
Articles, Non-Fiction
The Rise of Speculative Poetry 
By: Eugen Bacon
Reviews
Monday: Festival & Game of the Worlds by César Aira 
By: Will McMahon
,
Wednesday: Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa 
By: Kristy Wang
,
Friday: The Silverblood Promise by James Logan 
By: Eric Hendel
Read Issue
Issue 17 Jun 2024
Poetry
The Exorcism of Icarus 
By: Lesley Hart Gunn
Poetry
A Shiva 
By: Emily Ruth Verona
Fiction
The Big Easy 
By: Joanne Rixon
Reviews
Monday: Two Views: Biopeculiar by Gigi Ganguly 
By: Akankshya Abismruta
By: Areeb Ahmad
,
Wednesday: A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, Translated by Anton Hur 
By: William Shaw
,
Friday: The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry 
By: Shannon Fay
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