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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

March 13th, 2023

Minimalist yet Luminous Multiplicity — A Review of "Water Has Many Colors" by Kiriti Sengupta

by Tabish Nawaz

My interest lies in locating the elusive self in the medium of life it is immersed in, observe its many shades as it splits along experiences, like a ...read the full piece >>

Review

February 27th, 2023

Behind Appearances — A Review of Sanaë Lemoine’s "The Margot Affair"

by Viviana De Cecco

Truth and lies, illusions and reality, loneliness and the life of a couple. These are some of the themes that are addressed in this book by Sanaë ...read the full piece >>

Interview

February 13th, 2023

On Language, Writing, Disability, and More — An Interview with Shahd Alshammari

by Ibrahim Fawzy

Shahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Kent in England. ...read the full piece >>

Interview

January 30th, 2023

Finding Peace Within Chaos — An Interview with Author Shifra Steinberg on Her Debut Novel "Imaginary Order"

by Carolina Miniati

Before Shifra settled down in Manhattan to attend Columbia University, she lived in more places than most people visit in a lifetime. Her nomadic life ...read the full piece >>

Review

January 15th, 2023

Reminiscing about Dignity and Unvoiced Love — 
A Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "The Remains of the Day"

by Lisa Schantl

As 2022 came to an end, I picked Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day (1989) from my shelf, not knowing that it ...read the full piece >>

Review

December 5th, 2022

A Man’s Redemption — A Review of Desire Nana’s "Much Like Joseph (From Pit to Glory)"

by Viviana De Cecco

This is a book about poverty, violence, loneliness and pain, but mostly about faith in God, hope and redemption. It is the autobiographical story of ...read the full piece >>

Review

November 14th, 2022

Between Biotechnology and Ethics — A Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "Never Let Me Go"

by Margarita Beatriz Escobar

We live in a world where medical scientific experimentation has ramifications that reach deep into every aspect of our lives. Its discoveries could ...read the full piece >>

Review

October 24th, 2022

Legends Reincarnate — A Review of Kehinde Akano’s "Pajepolobi"

by Adewuyi Ayodeji

Nigerian writer Kehinde Akano is well recognized for writing against oppression and injustice in human society. He was the winner of the 2021 ...read the full piece >>

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 >>
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