Review
April 1st, 2024
by Lisa Schantl
The short story collection Almost Happy by Ella Voss (2023, Matador) is a rollercoaster ride through what it means to be a woman of Western origin ...read the full piece >>Review
March 18th, 2024
by Scott Ward
If you are a dedicated reader of American poetry, perhaps, like me, you sometimes find contemporary poems a bit predictable? The poetic lexicon seems ...read the full piece >>Review
February 19th, 2024
by Ana Bojanović
Mannequin of Our Times (2023) by Vandana Kumar is characterized by an exceptional lightness of expression, bordering on levity, in the background of ...read the full piece >>Review
January 31st, 2024
by Zara Miller
Wole Soyinka — 20 th century Shakespeare from Nigeria — dictates the pace of transforming Africa’s socio-economic landscape in his award-winning play ...read the full piece >>Review
January 8th, 2024
by Samiksha Tulika Ransom
A month ago, I happened to chance upon Yiyun Li’s interview in the Bad Form review, where she talks about her ‘aha! moment’ for The Book of Goose ...read the full piece >>Review
December 4th, 2023
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
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
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
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
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 >>Supported by:
