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!
Review
February 2nd, 2026
Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”
by Jana Yin
Juhea Kim’s new book, A Love Story From the End of the World: Stories (Ecco, 2025), is a collection of ten short stories that span a spectrum of ...read the full piece >>Review
January 19th, 2026
A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani
by Amritesh Mukherjee
In a heavily gendered and surveilled society, how do you protect yourself? How do you find yourself? How do you reclaim yourself? Anisha Lalvani’s ...read the full piece >>Interview
January 12th, 2026
A Brief and Personal History of Literary Translingualism — An Interview with Natasha Lvovich
by Lisa Schantl
Natasha Lvovich is a writer and scholar of multilingualism and of multilingual literature, based in New York, with Russian origins and a global ...read the full piece >>Review
January 5th, 2026
A Plurality of Women’s Lives — A Review of “Talking With Boys” by Tayyba Kanwal
by Anushree Nande
Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer and Literary Director at Inprint. In her debut short story collection Talking With Boys (Black Lawrence ...read the full piece >>Other
December 22nd, 2025
Between Languages — How Warsan Shire Taught Me to Speak in Silence
by Ebenezer Mowete
There’s a certain loneliness that comes with thinking in one language and writing in another. It feels like standing between two mirrors — your ...read the full piece >>Review
December 8th, 2025
Climate Collapse, but Make It Absurd — A Review of Rajat Chaudhuri’s “The Butterfly Effect”
by Sabyasachi Roy
Let’s not pretend we don’t know what’s happening outside. It’s September, it’s hot when it shouldn’t be, storms are tearing up coasts with all the ...read the full piece >>Interview
November 24th, 2025
Ecological Consciousness Imbibed in Poetic Sensibilities — In Conversation with Kunjana Parashar
by Srijani Mitra
Kunjana Parashar is a poet based in Mumbai, India. Her debut poetry book, They Gather Around Me, the Animals, selected by Diane Seuss, won the 2024 ...read the full piece >>Review
November 10th, 2025
The Language of Grief — A Review of Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ “The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir”
by Viviana De Cecco
The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Doubleday, 2022) is much more than an autobiography. It explores universal themes such as family ties, identity, ...read the full piece >>Interview
October 27th, 2025
A Glimpse behind the Scenes of Poetry’s Exophonic Issue with Editor and Poet Srikanth Reddy
by Lisa Schantl
Srikanth Reddy is a poet, literary editor, and book critic. A teacher at the University of Chicago since 2003, he is also the author of various poetry ...read the full piece >>Interview
October 13th, 2025
Stirring the Waters to Reclaim the Flow — In Conversation with Vaishali Shroff
by Preeti Kathuria
With over 300 stories to her name, Vaishali Shroff’s writing is a blend of rich storytelling along with the purpose of exploring biodiversity, ...read the full piece >>