In Conversation
The In Conversation section of Tint Journal is a place where discussions about writing in English as a second language, and about ESL books and their authors take place. Here, writers, readers, and book lovers come together to share ideas, discover new favorite books, and read up on up-and-coming authors.
The section is divided into reviews, where our contributing writers introduce new ESL books and old classics of this category; interviews, where ESL authors share their insights into craft, their love for language, and their future projects; and profiles, where we invite you to discover valuable individuals in the world of ESL writing.
If you would like to contribute your own article to In Conversation, please review our submission guidelines and contact our section editors.
But first: Grab a cup of tea and get ready to discover your next favorite ESL book!
Interview
October 3rd, 2022
Five Questions with Shawn Hoo: On Singaporean English, Writings from Asia’s Queer Mecca, and Ecopoetry
by Sam Dapanas
Shawn Hoo is the author of Of the Florids (2022), winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. A writer and editor from Singapore, his poems are ...read the full piece >>Review
September 21st, 2022
“We burned with the desire to ascend those slopes ourselves” — A Review of Amitav Ghosh’s "The Living Mountain"
by Damisha Salim
A story within a story, part dream, part memory of a grandma tale from childhood, The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times (2022) is a new, short ...read the full piece >>Review
September 5th, 2022
Unearthing Coordinates Of A Lost Earth — A Review of "Sarva Anshantun Apan / The Coordinates Of Us" by Sanket Mhatre & Rochelle Potkar
by Kavita Parwani Talib
Behind every poem there is a secret message for someone and when you read Sarva Anshatun Appan/The Coordinates of Us, you might find a few of your ...read the full piece >>Review
August 22nd, 2022
The Ministress of the Political Essay — A Review of Arundhati Roy’s "Azadi"
by Sam Dapanas
In her 2020 collection of essays, Indian novelist, activist and essayist Arundhati Roy takes up questions of language, cultural belonging, literature ...read the full piece >>Review
August 8th, 2022
Making Poetry out of Wounds — A review of "The Country with no Playgrounds" by Elena Croitoru
by Ilias Tsagas
Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer, holding a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. The Country With No ...read the full piece >>Review
July 25th, 2022
Life, God, and the Land — A Review of "Pilgrim Bell" by Kaveh Akbar
by Seher Hashmi
Kaveh Akbar is a prominent American poet of Iranian origin who shot to fame for resorting to poetry to fight off addiction. His first pamphlet ...read the full piece >>Review
July 11th, 2022
Collage of One Family and Two Lands — A Review of Fowzia Karimi’s "Above Us the Milky Way"
by Hantian Zhang
Past and present. Parents and daughters. War and peace. Days and dreams. People and ghosts. Memory and Hope. Afghanistan and the US. If you wish to ...read the full piece >>Review
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 >>Review
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 >>Review
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 >>