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
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 >>Review
June 5th, 2023
Kali Yuga Thriller — A Review of Deepti Kapoor’s "Age of Vice"
by Hantian Zhang
In my imagination, India has always been a place of contradictions: democracy and caste, wealth and poverty, Santiniketan and Bhopal. Such myriad ...read the full piece >>Interview
May 22nd, 2023
Belonging to a Collage: An Interview with Marjorie Agosín
by Dolores Hunsky
Tint Journal is about to release their first anthology Tinted Trails: Exploring Writings in English as a Second Language and I have had the ...read the full piece >>Interview
May 8th, 2023
On Inspiration and Identity — An Interview with Juhea Kim
by Andrea Färber
The first time I encountered the name ‘Juhea Kim’ was in the English section of my local bookstore. I know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its ...read the full piece >>Review
April 24th, 2023
Self-Portrait as a Subject-in-Motion: A Review of "Towards a Theory on City Boys: Prose Poems" by Alton Melvar M Dapanas
by Sofija Popovska
When Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Book of Sand, it was an act of accidental clairvoyance. A real-world manifestation of this endless tome would hit the ...read the full piece >>