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Locusts

“You cannot escape the bugs,” writes Anisha Joshi, beginning this haunting tale of a childhood season, almost surreal and almost psychological, and also not so easy to leave behind. Joshi, a young Nepali writer and Duke Kunshan student, speaks briefly on Nepali authors and fear in a short interview; and lastly Jack Calder investigates our entomological anxieties.

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