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The In Conversation section of Tint Journal is a place where discussions about ESL writing, books, and authors take place, where writers, readers, and book lovers come to share ideas, discover new favorite books, and read up on up-and-coming authors.

The section is divided in reviews, where our volunteers introduce our readers to new ESL books and old classics of the genre; interviews, where ESL authors share their creative secrets, their love for language, and their future projects; profiles, where our volunteers discover and present to us valuable names in the world of ESL writing.

Each article features an area for discussion at the bottom, where our readers can ask writers and editors questions or engage in conversation with one another. And if you are the writerly type rather then the readerly one, you can contact us and we’ll walk you through writing your very own In Conversation article!

It’s time to grab a cup of tea and get ready to discover your next favorite ESL book!

Review

April 28th, 2025

The Cost of Conformity — A Review of “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi

by Dolores Hunsky

The Death of Vivek Oji (Riverhead Books, 2020) is a captivating novel that focuses on family, friends, identity, and belonging. It explores the ...read the full piece >>

Interview

April 14th, 2025

Thick Descriptions: Articulating Human Contestation of the Crisis — In-Conversation with Author Ranjana Padhi

by Preeti Kathuria

Born in Berhampur, Orissa, eastern India, Ranjana Padhi is a political activist, author, and editor. She has been involved in autonomous collectives ...read the full piece >>

Review

March 31st, 2025

Leaps of Passion and Perseverance — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “City of Night Birds”

by Andrea Färber

Juhea Kim is a rising star in the literary sky. Her first published novel Beasts of a Little Land (Ecco, 2021) became an international bestseller and ...read the full piece >>

Interview

March 17th, 2025

The Body as Our Universal Mother Tongue — A Conversation with Mimi Kunz

by Christina Wunder

Mimi Kunz, born in 1986 in Germany, is a Brussels-based visual artist and poet. After studying painting and graphics in Germany, she did residencies ...read the full piece >>

Other

March 3rd, 2025

The Role of Language and Postcolonial Literature in Shaping Identity — A Personal Essay

by Susi Peter

Our view of languages is shaped by a Eurocentric perspective that we are taught from an early age. Our author, Susanne Peter, reflects on how her ...read the full piece >>

Profile

February 17th, 2025

Phillis Wheatley — the First Published Afro-American Poet

by Viviana De Cecco

Brought as a slave to the United States from Africa at a young age, Phillis Wheatley went on to become the first African-American poet to be ...read the full piece >>

Review

February 3rd, 2025

A Poet’s Foundation — A Review of “The Poet’s Guide to Publishing” by Katerina Stoykova

by Manuel J. Grimaldi

Katerina Stoykova, hailing from Burgas, Bulgaria, is an internationally recognized poet and the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing in ...read the full piece >>

Interview

January 20th, 2025

The Impact of Social Media on the Intersection of Art and Politics — An Interview with Ramón Reichert

by Gelavizh Abolhassani

Ramón Reichert, born in 1966, is a senior researcher in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he also ...read the full piece >>

Review

January 13th, 2025

Invoking a Greenery of Words — A Review of Tabish Nawaz’s “The Ornaments for Silence”

by Basudhara Roy

Tabish Nawaz hails from the state of Bihar in India and grew up in a multilingual community, avidly absorbing the linguistic and cultural repertoires ...read the full piece >>

Review

December 30th, 2024

Longing for Home — A Review of “These Hollowed Bones” by Amelia Díaz Ettinger

by Joyce Bou Charaa

On her blog, Amelia Díaz Ettinger describes herself as a writer of poems and short stories “that reflect the struggle of identity found in ...read the full piece >>
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