Farzana Doctor’s Book, ‘Seven’ Confronts An Abusive Tradition
Trigger Warnings: FGM/C Some Christian denominations believe a seven-year-old can make spiritual choices. Judaism and Islam hold that a seven-year-old boy is ab
Jeanne E. Fredriksen
Books I Embraced, Devoured, and Loved In 2020
This year—destructive, unrelenting, heartbreaking —has affected everyone differently. From early in the crisis, I’ve repeatedly heard that many people hav
Dancing in Plain Sight
“The world is full of paper. I am writing now. I am writing to me. I am writing to myself and others like me,” author Sejal Shah professes in an essay "The
Fighting Cancer, Choosing Hope
In 2012, Munira Premji was an active woman filled with the joy of life. Her career was satisfying, her marriage was wonderful, and her grown children’s succes
An Accomplished Poetic Life
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. – W. H. Auden In reading 16-year-old Uma Menon’s debut collection of po
10 Things I Hate About Pinky!
If you’re ready for summer reading fun, Sandhya Menon’s latest young adult novel, 10 Things I Hate About Pinky, features an ocean of fun and a mountain of l
Tea for Two
In Seeing Ceremony, Meera Ekkanath Klein’s sequel to her 2017 debut novel, My Mother’s Kitchen, the narrator, Meena, is now ready for college and continues
Fierce and Determined: A Pioneering Spirit
Biographies such as Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions, Nandini Patwardhan’s engrossing biography of Dr. Anandibai Joshe
Black and White Are Not Colors
The second-generation Bengali woman known as Mother in Devi S. Laskar’s emotionally raw debut novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, is forty-three years, six mo
The Link in the Linguistic Chain
Language is fluid, and anyone who has successfully made it to adulthood has experienced slang growing into accepted usage and accepted usage shifting as new ver
Mistry Mystery: Solved in New Series
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. Soho Crime/Soho Press, Inc.: New York. 400 pages. Hardcover. Also available as a digital book. Sujata Massey, the a
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
From the award-winning author of An Obedient Father (2001 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award) and Family Life (2014 New York Times Best Books of the Year; 2015 Foli
