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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!

Interview

December 27th, 2023

An Interview with Catarina Letria on History-Writing, English as a Lingua Franca, and Literary Fiction

by Elnura Huseynova

I first met award-winning fiction author Catarina Letria in Budapest during the first semester of the History in the Public Sphere program (HIPS), ...read the full piece >>

Review

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 >>

Interview

November 20th, 2023

Out of the Imagination, Into the Real World: An Interview with Vanesa Erjavec

by Dolores Hunsky

The anthology Tinted Trails: Exploring Writings in English as a Second Language (2023) has been published and anyone who has seen it knows that it ...read the full piece >>

Review

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 >>

Other

October 23rd, 2023

Notes On Reading

by Hantian Zhang

Recently, a friend found on goodreads.com my 2023 reading list, and it seemed long to him. Interested, he asked me to share a tip or two on reading: ...read the full piece >>

Interview

October 9th, 2023

Writing Sudan: An Interview with Sudanese Writer Reem Gaafar on her Debut Novel "A Mouth Full of Salt"

by Ibrahim Fawzy

Sudanese author Reem Gaafar won the 2023 Island Prize for her debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt (to be released 2024), becoming the first Sudanese ...read the full piece >>

Review

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 >>

Interview

September 11th, 2023

Varying On Points, Skirting All Canons: Hideko Sueoka on Poetry-as-Sound and the Japanese Anglophone Poet

by Sam Dapanas

Hideko Sueoka is the author of Untouched Landscape (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2018) and translator of Shigeichi Nagano: Magazine Work 60s ...read the full piece >>

Review

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 >>

Review

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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