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Our weekly flagship newsletter that highlights the best of Archivenal, including top stories, fresh takes on fiction, thought-provoking and biting essays from their writers.
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CULTURE & THE ARTS
INSIGHT & ANALYSIS
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ESSAY┃THE WEEKLY
By Cluaidh Vuong
SHORT STORY┃THE WEEKLY
Explores how our old writing, even when it seems forgotten or outdated, still has value and is waiting to be rediscovered by new readers who may find meaning in it at the right time.
By Aichi Mabri
May 4, 2025
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
In this week newsletter: Sudante (弾帝) wrote a prosewith a haunting metaphor that uses the art of perfume-making to explore how women are often broken down, consumed, and idealized in the pursuit of love and devotion.
• A short story that follows a quiet outcast, Luke, who finally earns his badge as a police officer, only to find that the world he dreamed of saving never wanted him, so he rewrites the meaning of hero on his own terms.
• An essay that explores how our old writing, even when it seems forgotten or outdated, still has value and is waiting to be rediscovered by new readers who may find meaning in it at the right time.
“They say benevolence is the truest form of revenge. But vengeance was inevitable . . . and kindness? Kindness was a language I unlearned the moment I pulled the trigger.”
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Follows a quiet outcast, Luke, who finally earns his badge as a police officer, only to find that the world he dreamed of saving never wanted him, so he rewrites the meaning of hero on his own terms.
AICHI MABRI, “I Am My Own Hero.”
PROSE┃THE WEEKLY
Read our April Issue 4: Mundane here.
By Sudante
A prose with haunting metaphor that uses the art of perfume-making to explore how women are often broken down, consumed, and idealized in the pursuit of love and devotion.
Cluaidh Vuong, “Against Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery”
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