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June 27th, 2022

The Tragic Fate of Poetry — A Review of "From Sand Creek" by Simon J. Ortiz

by Zara Miller

Simon J. Ortiz's crown achievement From Sand Creek: Rising In This Heart Which Is Our America (1981) is a perfect representation of the Native ...read the full piece >>

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June 13th, 2022

The Constant Flux of Literature — A review of "Translating Myself and Others" by Jhumpa Lahiri

by Steven G. Kellman

This time we are doing something a little bit different with this book review, because Jhumpa Lahiri is not an ESL writer. She grew up speaking ...read the full piece >>

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May 30th, 2022

(Up)Rising Necessity — A Review of "Unapologetically Feminist" by Urvashi Bundel

by Dolores Hunsky

Unapologetically Feminist (2022) is an eye-opening poetry collection that deals with many of the social injustices that still plague our world and it ...read the full piece >>

Review

May 2nd, 2022

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?” — A Review of Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things”

by Namita Suberi

The God of Small Things (1997) is Arundhati Roy’s debut novel and it won her the Booker Prize in 1997. Its story is a celebration of love and memory, ...read the full piece >>

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April 4th, 2022

A Sordid Story Told With A Slant Of Humour — A Review of "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" By Mohsin Hamid

by Seher Hashmi

If you wish to relish in humour that smoothly changes its pace and texture, then this compact novel of 228 pages titled How to Get Filthy Rich in ...read the full piece >>

Review

March 21st, 2022

To Simply Be — A Review of Aleksandar Hemon’s "The Book of My Lives"

by Qing Xu

“Truth is stranger than fiction,” opined Mark Twain. In this collection of “real stories” — as the writer Aleksandar Hemon puts it himself — readers ...read the full piece >>

Review

March 7th, 2022

We Will Not Forget: "Don’t Forget Us Here" by Mansoor Adayfi — A Review

by Olga Pinjung

Don’t Forget Us Here is a book about endurance, brotherhood, suffering and finding happiness in hell: Guantánamo. It offers a painful yet hopeful and ...read the full piece >>

Review

February 21st, 2022

Overlooked: Being Korean in Japan — A Review of "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee

by Chiara Meitz

Pachinko (2017) by Min Jin Lee leads us into the lives of a Korean family in Japan during the 20th century. Her narrative follows four generations ...read the full piece >>

Review

February 7th, 2022

Through the Lens of a Traveller: A Review of "Icon" by Chiara Maxia

by Joselle Ali

For this review, our volunteer Joselle had the pleasure of interviewing actress and author Chiara Maxia. As she unravels the text, she sets out to ...read the full piece >>

Review

January 24th, 2022

“In Guam, even the dead are dying” — A Review of Julian Aguon’s "The Properties of Perpetual Light"

by Andrea Färber

Coming to terms with loss and what it means to grow up in a country that is never truly one’s own, The Properties of Perpetual Light (2021) is a ...read the full piece >>
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