Mar 29, 2023
Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
I love a novel set in India, and the details of the sparkling promise and darker underpinnings of the city of Hrishipur were a standout...
Feb 14, 2023
Review of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Kapoor's gritty New Delhi-set novel explores brutal violence and cruelties in an exploration of class divides and the destructive power...
Jan 19, 2023
Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep, heartwarming connections in...
May 19, 2022
Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Vaishnavi Patel's debut is a captivating retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main...
Mar 17, 2022
Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar
The issues Umrigar confronts in Honor are weighty and fascinating, but I found myself distracted by the story's pacing and an...
Feb 16, 2021
Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
There's enough injustice and crooked dealing in this captivating book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title...
Jan 22, 2021
Six Great Books about the Immigrant Experience
01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...
Nov 16, 2020
Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying everything. It's...