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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 >>Review
January 15th, 2023
Reminiscing about Dignity and Unvoiced Love — A Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "The Remains of the Day"
by Lisa Schantl
As 2022 came to an end, I picked Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day (1989) from my shelf, not knowing that it ...read the full piece >>Review
December 5th, 2022
A Man’s Redemption — A Review of Desire Nana’s "Much Like Joseph (From Pit to Glory)"
by Viviana De Cecco
This is a book about poverty, violence, loneliness and pain, but mostly about faith in God, hope and redemption. It is the autobiographical story of ...read the full piece >>Review
November 14th, 2022
Between Biotechnology and Ethics — A Review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s "Never Let Me Go"
by Margarita Beatriz Escobar
We live in a world where medical scientific experimentation has ramifications that reach deep into every aspect of our lives. Its discoveries could ...read the full piece >>Review
October 24th, 2022
Legends Reincarnate — A Review of Kehinde Akano’s "Pajepolobi"
by Adewuyi Ayodeji
Nigerian writer Kehinde Akano is well recognized for writing against oppression and injustice in human society. He was the winner of the 2021 ...read the full piece >>Review
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 >>