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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 >>Review
July 7th, 2025
Harsh, Harrowing, Honest, and Humorous — A Review of “ELIS: Irish Call Girl” by Anna Rajmon
by Jose Ramos
Hailing from the Czech Republic, Anna Rajmon is an author and illustrator with a love for dark humor, biting sarcasm, and unconventional storytelling. ...read the full piece >>Review
June 23rd, 2025
The Distance Between Intellect and Intimacy — A Review of Mariam Rahmani’s “Liquid”
by Layla Sabourian
In her ambitious debut novel Liquid (Algonquin Books, 2025), Mariam Rahmani explores the porous boundaries of identity, faith, and desire through the ...read the full piece >>Review
May 12th, 2025
“Red Birds” Takes off with Absurdism in Literature on Proxy Wars — A Book Review of “Red Birds” by Mohammed Hanif
by Seher Hashmi
Published in 2018 (Bloomsbury), Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif, an acclaimed British-Pakistani novelist, ushers in absurdism into the arena of postmodern ...read the full piece >>