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The Fathers We Know and the Men We Don’t
Douglas Stuart’s John of John made me wonder how well we ever really know our parents—not simply as mothers and fathers, but as people who had entire lives before us.
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The Life Between Two People
I finished The Anthropologists, Ayşegül Savaş’s quiet novel about a couple trying to build a life in a city that never quite feels like home, a few weeks ago. Ever since, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Asya and Manu.
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The People I Was Never Supposed to Meet
When I moved to London, I thought the hardest part would be finding work. It wasn’t. Well, the hardest part was learning how to belong.
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The Radical Grace of Rani Amrit Kaur
I recently finished In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy, and I have been thinking about the Rani of Mandi ever since.
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1984 in 2020: A Must Read
The masterwork, 1984, was published in July 1949, almost 7 decades ago. George Orwell was already a literary star; however, nobody envisaged the lastingness his work is going to have over time.