The world must appear strange as you peer through our hero’s eyes. Your eyes now.
The author discusses his new book on Merle Oberon, the Golden Age of Hollywood starlet whose South Asian heritage was hidden from the industry.
I had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.
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The world must appear strange as you peer through our hero’s eyes. Your eyes now.
The author discusses his new book on Merle Oberon, the Golden Age of Hollywood starlet whose South Asian heritage was hidden from the industry.
I had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.
The author of Sucker Punch on surrendering to life's cycles, writing about her divorce, and picking the right fights.
Desire and decision may not line up. Or indecision ends up being its own decision.
Over seven decades, the right to forget has seemingly become intrinsic to Indian nationhood.
The author of Making Love with the Land on transforming pain into love, entering as a guest into the recesses of literature, and birthing a body of text from a body of experience.
There was the glimmer of possibility in stories of bolt cutters and train yards and spray cans—possibilities of disruption and liberation.
The author of The Women's House of Detention on forgotten prison history, the incarcerated LGBTQ population, and women being punished for entering the public sphere.
The author of The School of Mirrors on sexual violence, the history of midwifery, and opening up archival silences.
Ecological grief captures a newly defined set of emotions, all connected to our personal relationship to the natural world.