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At the Intersection of Hope and Dread
Two space novels to read in the new year.
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Nidhi Mahajan
To Own and Be Owned
A review of 'Tremor' by Teju Cole — a cerebral novel without much plot to pursue.
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Tell the Story With Your Ears
A review of 'James' by Percival Everett — a novel born from listening.
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Nidhi Mahajan
Asking the Small, Human Questions
A review of 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI' by Madhumita Murgia.
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Nidhi Mahajan
Fandom Work is Life and Death
‘Oshi’ (idol) culture in Japan and reading 'Idol, Burning' by Rin Usami.
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Nidhi Mahajan
Everyone You've Ever Met
Reading ‘The Details’ by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson.
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Lessons in Feeling & Many Hamlets
A review of ‘Enter Ghost’ by Isabella Hammad.
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A Fever Dream in Warped Time
A review of ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch.
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Nidhi Mahajan
Sisterhood and the Erotic
Reading Audre Lorde's ‘Zami: A New Spelling of My Name’.
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Caste and Cosmopolitanism
Reading Sunjeev Sahota's 'The Year of the Runaways'.
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How the Digital World Offers New Ways of Reading Literature
Who speaks? Who listens? What is said?
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A South Asian Anthology of Queer Erotica
A review of ‘Close, Too Close: The Tranquebar Book of Queer Erotica'.
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