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December 4th, 2023

Love and Resilience: A Review of "River Spirit" by Leila Aboulela

by Olga Pinjung

River Spirit (2023) is a history lesson carefully wrapped in a blanket of masterful storytelling filled with fascinating characters. It tells the ...read the full piece >>

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November 6th, 2023

A Challenge Against Fate — A Review of Aravind Adiga’s "The White Tiger"

by Viviana De Cecco

Author Aravind Adiga recently stated in an interview that his novel contains no autobiographical elements and that his characters are only figments of ...read the full piece >>

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September 25th, 2023

At The Beginning of Hope: A Review of Ocean Vuong’s "Time Is a Mother"

by Namita Suberi

Death and grief inspire many. These feelings then find footing on the page. We know many a poet who turn to poetry to cope with death and everything ...read the full piece >>

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August 28th, 2023

Eat, Love, and Hope: A Review of "Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love" by Lara Vapnyar

by Qing Xu

Food is always absent, or at best making occasional appearances in a stealthy and unobtrusive manner, in the history of literature. Virginia Woolf has ...read the full piece >>

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August 14th, 2023

The Empowering Nature: A Review of Silvia Vasquez-Lavado’s "In the Shadow of the Mountain"

by Joyce Bou Charra

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, a mountaineer and a humanitarian, is the first Peruvian woman — and one of few women overall — to complete the Seven Summits, ...read the full piece >>

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July 3rd, 2023

The Freedom to Be Yourself — A Review of Nadeem Aslam’s "Maps for Lost Lovers"

by Viviana De Cecco

Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) is a complex book, exploring themes such as freedom and oppression, love and loneliness, religion, racism, legal and ...read the full piece >>

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June 5th, 2023

Kali Yuga Thriller — A Review of Deepti Kapoor’s "Age of Vice"

by Hantian Zhang

In my imagination, India has always been a place of contradictions: democracy and caste, wealth and poverty, Santiniketan and Bhopal. Such myriad ...read the full piece >>

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April 24th, 2023

Self-Portrait as a Subject-in-Motion: A Review of "Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems" by Alton Melvar M Dapanas

by Sofija Popovska

When Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Book of Sand , it was an act of accidental clairvoyance. A real-world manifestation of this endless tome would hit ...read the full piece >>

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March 13th, 2023

Minimalist yet Luminous Multiplicity — A Review of "Water Has Many Colors" by Kiriti Sengupta

by Tabish Nawaz

My interest lies in locating the elusive self in the medium of life it is immersed in, observe its many shades as it splits along experiences, like a ...read the full piece >>

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February 27th, 2023

Behind Appearances — A Review of Sanaë Lemoine’s "The Margot Affair"

by Viviana De Cecco

Truth and lies, illusions and reality, loneliness and the life of a couple. These are some of the themes that are addressed in this book by Sanaë ...read the full piece >>
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