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December 4th, 2023
Love and Resilience: A Review of "River Spirit" by Leila Aboulela
by Olga Pinjung
River Spirit (2023) is a history lesson carefully wrapped in a blanket of masterful storytelling filled with fascinating characters. It tells the ...read the full piece >>Review
November 6th, 2023
A Challenge Against Fate — A Review of Aravind Adiga’s "The White Tiger"
by Viviana De Cecco
Author Aravind Adiga recently stated in an interview that his novel contains no autobiographical elements and that his characters are only figments of ...read the full piece >>Review
September 25th, 2023
At The Beginning of Hope: A Review of Ocean Vuong’s "Time Is a Mother"
by Namita Suberi
Death and grief inspire many. These feelings then find footing on the page. We know many a poet who turn to poetry to cope with death and everything ...read the full piece >>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 >>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 >>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 >>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 >>Review
March 13th, 2023
Minimalist yet Luminous Multiplicity — A Review of "Water Has Many Colors" by Kiriti Sengupta
by Tabish Nawaz
My interest lies in locating the elusive self in the medium of life it is immersed in, observe its many shades as it splits along experiences, like a ...read the full piece >>Review
February 27th, 2023
Behind Appearances — A Review of Sanaë Lemoine’s "The Margot Affair"
by Viviana De Cecco
Truth and lies, illusions and reality, loneliness and the life of a couple. These are some of the themes that are addressed in this book by Sanaë ...read the full piece >>