Subversive Sanskrit

Sanskritique

Everything we print began as an argument someone lost in the living room and wanted to make properly.

Issue 01

Hilary 2027
Forthcoming

Short pieces, session notes, translations, and marginalia. No peer review, no house style, no word count — only the requirement that the writer means it.

Forthcoming · Hilary 2027

A zine about philology and the people who keep doing it

  • Essay

    The second canon

    On the assumptions that survive every methodological turn because nobody edits them
  • Session notes

    Where the room split on Nietzsche

    Michaelmas, week two — including the objection we could not answer
  • Translation

    A commentary changes its mind

    A short passage with facing translation and too many footnotes
  • Complaint

    Against the useful heretic

    What we do to a tradition when we praise only the parts that dissent
  • Marginalia

    Things overheard at conferences

    Unattributed, as is only fair

Free · 32pp · edition of 200

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