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September 21st, 2022

“We burned with the desire to ascend those slopes ourselves” — A Review of Amitav Ghosh’s "The Living Mountain"

by Damisha Salim

A story within a story, part dream, part memory of a grandma tale from childhood, The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times (2022) is a new, short ...read the full piece >>

Review

September 5th, 2022

Unearthing Coordinates Of A Lost Earth — A Review of "Sarva Anshantun Apan / The Coordinates Of Us" by Sanket Mhatre & Rochelle Potkar

by Kavita Parwani Talib

Behind every poem there is a secret message for someone and when you read Sarva Anshatun Appan/The Coordinates of Us , you might find a few of your ...read the full piece >>

Review

August 22nd, 2022

The Ministress of the Political Essay — A Review of Arundhati Roy’s "Azadi"

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

Making Poetry out of Wounds — A review of "The Country with no Playgrounds" by Elena Croitoru

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

Life, God, and the Land — A Review of "Pilgrim Bell" by Kaveh Akbar

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

Collage of One Family and Two Lands — A Review of Fowzia Karimi’s "Above Us the Milky Way"

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

The Tragic Fate of Poetry — A Review of "From Sand Creek" by Simon J. Ortiz

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

The Constant Flux of Literature — A review of "Translating Myself and Others" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

(Up)Rising Necessity — A Review of "Unapologetically Feminist" by Urvashi Bundel

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 >>

Review

May 2nd, 2022

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?” — A Review of Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things”

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 >>
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