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March 16th, 2026
We Are Not Just Ourselves — A Review of “Freshwater” by Akwaeke Emezi
by Jade Hui
Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater (Grove Press, 2018), is a haunting exploration of identity, spirituality, and mental health through the lens ...read the full piece >>Review
March 2nd, 2026
The Forbidden Freedom — A Review of Sindhu Rajasekaran’s “Forbidden Desire: How the British Stole India’s Queer Pasts and Queer Futures”
by Kabir Deb
Indian civilization and its history have long been liberal about the human body, its desire, and sexual plurality, treating love and sexuality as ...read the full piece >>Review
February 2nd, 2026
Love and Its Many Tints — A Review of Juhea Kim’s “A Love Story From the End of the World”
by Jana Yin
Juhea Kim’s new book, A Love Story From the End of the World: Stories (Ecco, 2025), is a collection of ten short stories that span a spectrum of ...read the full piece >>Review
January 19th, 2026
A Woman’s Life, Out of Line — A Review of “Girls Who Stray” by Anisha Lalvani
by Amritesh Mukherjee
In a heavily gendered and surveilled society, how do you protect yourself? How do you find yourself? How do you reclaim yourself? Anisha Lalvani’s ...read the full piece >>Review
January 5th, 2026
A Plurality of Women’s Lives — A Review of “Talking With Boys” by Tayyba Kanwal
by Anushree Nande
Tayyba Kanwal is a Pakistani-American writer and Literary Director at Inprint. In her debut short story collection Talking With Boys (Black Lawrence ...read the full piece >>Review
December 8th, 2025
Climate Collapse, but Make It Absurd — A Review of Rajat Chaudhuri’s “The Butterfly Effect”
by Sabyasachi Roy
Let’s not pretend we don’t know what’s happening outside. It’s September, it’s hot when it shouldn’t be, storms are tearing up coasts with all the ...read the full piece >>Review
November 10th, 2025
The Language of Grief — A Review of Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ “The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir”
by Viviana De Cecco
The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Doubleday, 2022) is much more than an autobiography. It explores universal themes such as family ties, identity, ...read the full piece >>Review
September 15th, 2025
Faith, Power, and Women’s Voices — A Review of “Under the Full and Crescent Moon” by Aamir Hussain
by Andrea Färber
Aamir Hussain’s debut novel Under the Full and Crescent Moon (Dundurn Press, published September 23, 2025) takes readers into the fictional city of ...read the full piece >>Review
August 18th, 2025
Surviving Life Away from Home — A Review of “Wings to Soar” by Tina Athaide
by Joyce Bou Charaa
As a children’s book author, Tina Athaide, born in Uganda, expands her stories by diving into history to reach a new audience and capture touching ...read the full piece >>Review
August 4th, 2025
Science Was a Ritual and the British Didn’t Notice — A Review of Amitav Ghosh's “The Calcutta Chromosome”
by Sabyasachi Roy
Let’s start with a small confession: I didn’t expect this book to be this weird. Or good. But mostly weird. The Calcutta Chromosome (first published ...read the full piece >>