Review
January 15th, 2021
by Ailun Shi
Xiaolu Guo in her memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, writes an eye-opening tale to China's history framed in the gripping anecdotes of personal ...read the full piece >>Review
December 21st, 2020
by Richard M. Cho
An excellent short story collection from the Laotian-Canadian writer Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife , is a fitting title for a book ...read the full piece >>Review
November 17th, 2020
by Pulkita Anand
With his work My Dateless Diary , Indian English novelist R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) made a detour from his fiction writing. Travelogue had not been a ...read the full piece >>Review
August 31st, 2020
by Ferdoss Shaarani
Longing is a poetry collection written by Brazilian poet Giulia de Gregorio Listo in 2019. She has been featured in The Junction, Literati Magazine , ...read the full piece >>Review
June 29th, 2020
by Christina Egger
Hope and other dangerous pursuits by Laila Lalami, is a collection of short stories that explore the different paths of a group of Moroccan immigrants ...read the full piece >>Review
June 15th, 2020
by Martina Braunegger
Waiting for love. Waiting for life. Waiting for freedom. Waiting only to realize that what you have been waiting for is not what you want after all. ...read the full piece >>Review
June 5th, 2020
by John Salimbene
The love of one’s country is a life-long battle for many. For Carmen Bugan, patriotism is a garden, flourishing with buds of beauty, betrayal, ...read the full piece >>Review
May 7th, 2020
by Daniela Poeck
I am China by Xiaolu Guo is a powerful book about China’s politics, oppression of freedom, art as a way out and a love that tries to overcome it all. ...read the full piece >>Review
April 7th, 2020
by Carolina Varga
Reading Lolita in Tehran is a memoir by Azar Nafisi, recounting her life in Iran during the revolution in 1978-1981 until her emigration in 1997. ESL ...read the full piece >>Review
September 4th, 2019
by Andrea Färber
Short stories are a fickle thing: Within a limited number of words, the writer has to introduce the character, draw in the reader with an intriguing ...read the full piece >>Supported by: