Vivek Bilous visits the Cambridge Majlis exhibition in Trinity College s Wren Library, finding it to be a celebration of part of Cambridge s most compelling history, and a point of pride for the South Asian com
In your life you’ve felt many sizes. When you were young, you looked at the adults around you, at the older kids you envied, and felt small in the world. But you grew. Sometimes, now, you feel so big you think you’ll never be small again. Then something shows you how big you really were all along. You stare into the hugeness of it until you can’t see yourself, like a scale model of the earth beside a star. In Bára Hladik’s experimental debut novella New Infinity, the Czech-Canadian author grapples with her experiences of autoimmune disease, contextualizing the small pains and pleasures of the self within a vast and often vicious universe. The novella deals with themes of perspective and subjective experience — rendering hurt and joy in transcendent, almost spiritual terms, and painting life and illness in all the shades of wonder and horror that make up both. The novella is structured as a series of short stories interspersed with three p
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