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
April 15th, 2024
by Pritikana Karmakar
Ankit Raj Ojha’s debut poetry collection Pinpricks (2022) is a memory work in three undefined acts. It begins as a collection of family vignettes, ...read the full piece >>Review
April 1st, 2024
by Lisa Schantl
The short story collection Almost Happy by Ella Voss (2023, Matador) is a rollercoaster ride through what it means to be a woman of Western origin ...read the full piece >>Review
March 18th, 2024
by Scott Ward
If you are a dedicated reader of American poetry, perhaps, like me, you sometimes find contemporary poems a bit predictable? The poetic lexicon seems ...read the full piece >>Interview
March 4th, 2024
by William Allegrezza
When one thinks of Serena Piccoli, one immediately imagines the engaged artist. As David Romero says, “Serena Piccoli's poetry is a hammer seeking to ...read the full piece >>Review
February 19th, 2024
by Ana Bojanović
Mannequin of Our Times (2023) by Vandana Kumar is characterized by an exceptional lightness of expression, bordering on levity, in the background of ...read the full piece >>Interview
February 5th, 2024
by Ines Rodrigues
When we did this interview, Bruna Dantas Lobato was in a celebratory mood. Our conversation happened a few days after she got the National Book Prize ...read the full piece >>Review
January 31st, 2024
by Zara Miller
Wole Soyinka — 20 th century Shakespeare from Nigeria — dictates the pace of transforming Africa’s socio-economic landscape in his award-winning play ...read the full piece >>Interview
January 22nd, 2024
by Viktoriia Medvied
Dina Nayeri is an Iranian-American novelist, essayist, short-story writer, author of two novels and two books of creative nonfiction ( Who Gets ...read the full piece >>Review
January 8th, 2024
by Samiksha Tulika Ransom
A month ago, I happened to chance upon Yiyun Li’s interview in the Bad Form review, where she talks about her ‘aha! moment’ for The Book of Goose ...read the full piece >>Interview
December 27th, 2023
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 >>Supported by:
