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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 >>Review
April 4th, 2022
A Sordid Story Told With A Slant Of Humour — A Review of "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" By Mohsin Hamid
by Seher Hashmi
If you wish to relish in humour that smoothly changes its pace and texture, then this compact novel of 228 pages titled How to Get Filthy Rich in ...read the full piece >>Review
March 21st, 2022
To Simply Be — A Review of Aleksandar Hemon’s "The Book of My Lives"
by Qing Xu
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” opined Mark Twain. In this collection of “real stories” — as the writer Aleksandar Hemon puts it himself — readers ...read the full piece >>