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.
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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 Charaa
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 >>Interview
July 31st, 2023
The Inevitability of Spring — An Interview with Mohamed Tonsy
by Tim Tim Cheng
I knew Mohamed Tonsy's novel would be important to me the moment I read its title: You Must Believe in Spring. Spring, as in a transitional season, as ...read the full piece >>Interview
July 17th, 2023
Khadija A. Bajaber on the inheritance of story-telling, translating culture in fiction, and how reading impacts writing
by Wambui Waldhauser
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber is a Kenyan writer and the author of The House of Rust which won the inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize and The Ursula K. ...read the full piece >>Review
July 3rd, 2023
The Freedom to Be Yourself — A Review of Nadeem Aslam’s "Maps for Lost Lovers"
by Viviana De Cecco
Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) is a complex book, exploring themes such as freedom and oppression, love and loneliness, religion, racism, legal and ...read the full piece >>Interview
June 19th, 2023
Six Questions with Masande Ngcali Ntshanga: On Post-Apartheid Literature, the Afrofuturist Novel, and Publishing in South Africa
by Sam Dapanas
Masande Ngcali Ntshanga is a South African novelist, fictionist, poet, editor, and publisher. He has authored two novels—The Reactive (Cape Town: ...read the full piece >>