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 22nd, 2022
by Sam Dapanas
In her 2020 collection of essays, Indian novelist, activist and essayist Arundhati Roy takes up questions of language, cultural belonging, literature ...read the full piece >>Review
August 8th, 2022
by Ilias Tsagas
Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer, holding a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. The Country With No ...read the full piece >>Review
July 25th, 2022
by Seher Hashmi
Kaveh Akbar is a prominent American poet of Iranian origin who shot to fame for resorting to poetry to fight off addiction. His first pamphlet ...read the full piece >>Review
July 11th, 2022
by Hantian Zhang
Past and present. Parents and daughters. War and peace. Days and dreams. People and ghosts. Memory and Hope. Afghanistan and the US. If you wish to ...read the full piece >>Review
June 27th, 2022
by Zara Miller
Simon J. Ortiz's crown achievement From Sand Creek: Rising In This Heart Which Is Our America (1981) is a perfect representation of the Native ...read the full piece >>Review
June 13th, 2022
by Steven G. Kellman
This time we are doing something a little bit different with this book review, because Jhumpa Lahiri is not an ESL writer. She grew up speaking ...read the full piece >>Review
May 30th, 2022
by Dolores Hunsky
Unapologetically Feminist (2022) is an eye-opening poetry collection that deals with many of the social injustices that still plague our world and it ...read the full piece >>Interview
May 16th, 2022
by Sam Dapanas
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two distinct islands found in the ...read the full piece >>Review
May 2nd, 2022
by Namita Suberi
The God of Small Things (1997) is Arundhati Roy’s debut novel and it won her the Booker Prize in 1997. Its story is a celebration of love and memory, ...read the full piece >>Profile
April 18th, 2022
by Fayette Bruun
Born amid the disruption of the Iranian Revolution in a country where women have been systemically oppressed for decades, Layla uses her suffering to ...read the full piece >>Supported by:
