interviews
Anika Jade Levy discusses her debut novel Flat Earth
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
Novelist Anna North discusses her newest book Bog Queen
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
Accolades and Authenticity:
Amrita Mahale on Real Life
Helter Skelter, 2025
The seeking of solitude & a clean slate: Austyn Wohlers discusses her debut novel Hothouse Bloom
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
How technological capitalism shapes & exploits human existence: Vauhini Vara on her new book Searches
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
Sanjena Sathian on Goddess Complex (video)
Champaca Bookstore, 2025
Between Two Boats:
M R Dattathri on What’s Your Price, Mr Shivaswamy?
Helter Skelter, 2025
Irene Solà
on Abject Women, Writing from Curiosity, Memory and Oblivion, and Her New Book I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Write or Die Magazine, 2025
Issa Quincy
in Memory as Mutation, the Spaces Between, Learning Through Editing, and His Debut Novel Absence
Write or Die Magazine, 2025
At the nexus of assimilation and ambition: Kevin Nguyen on Mỹ Documents
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
The Fate of a Mystery:
Sundar Sarukkai on Water Days
Helter Skelter, 2025
A Vital Connection:
Karthika Naïr and Marilyn Hacker on A Different Distance: A Renga
Helter Skelter, 2025
The uneasy timeliness of [Madeleine Watts’s] Elegy, Southwest
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
A Brief Bit of Magic:
Annie Zaidi on The Comeback
Helter Skelter, 2025
The sharp precisions in [Lauren K. Watel’s] Book of Potions
Interlocutor Interviews, 2025
Tree Abraham
on Her Relationship to Language, Constructing a Literary Love Letter, and Her New Book elseship: an unrequited affair
Write or Die Magazine, 2025
A Sacred Private Practice:
Alina Gufran on No Place to Call My Own
Helter Skelter, 2025
Catriona Shine discusses the shifting architectures of Habitat
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Ledia Xhoga discusses Misinterpretation
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Jo Hamya
on Unraveling the Concept of the Novel, the Importance of Talking IRL about Competing Viewpoints, New Modes of Reader Response, and Her New Novel The Hypocrite
Write or Die Magazine, 2024
Exploring the underrated sorrows of rejection: Tony Tulathimutte on Rejection: Fiction
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Julia Hannafin on their novel Cascade (podcast)
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
In Conversation: Crumb Catcher Director Chris Skotchdopole
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2024
Ben Shattuck discusses The History of Sound: Stories
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Memory, identity, & synchronicities: Elisa Gabbert’s Any Person Is The Only Self
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Open Worlds, Organic Truths:
Gigi Ganguly on Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World
Helter Skelter, 2024
Pushing against the limits of possibility: R.O. Kwon discusses Exhibit
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Nicolette Polek
on Cultivating Silence, Solitude, and Prayer in Writing, and her Debut Novel Bitter Water Opera
Write or Die Magazine, 2024
Sejal Shah
on the Architecture of Writing, Creative Collaboration, Exploring the Spaces In-Between, and Her Short Story Collection How to Make Your Mother Cry
Write or Die Magazine, 2024
The Promises of Possibility:
Dharini Bhaskar on Like Being Alive Twice
Helter Skelter, 2024
The tensions between drifting & survival in Amber Caron’s story collection Call Up The Waters
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Novelist Lydia Kiesling talks about class, power, politics, & desire [in her book Mobility]
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Mariah Stovall
on Writing the Music Scene She Always Wanted to Read About, Timing and the Publishing marketplace, and Her Debut Novel I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both
Write or Die Magazine, 2024
Time and Space and a Complicated Place:
Tashan Mehta on Mad Sisters of Esi
Helter Skelter, 2024
The implications of AI & artmaking in Do You Remember Being Born?
An Interview with author Sean Michaels
Interlocutor Interviews, 2023
Fever Dreams and Buried Truths:
Siddhartha Deb on The Light at the End of the World
Helter Skelter, 2023
‘My Novel is a Tribute to Discovery of India’
Anjum Hasan on Writing History’s Angel
The News Minute, 2023
Christine Lai
on Art In a Time of Crisis, Archiving Language, Fictional Diaries, and Her Debut Novel Landscapes
Write or Die Magazine, 2023
Fertile Ground in Grey Spaces:
Praveena Shivram on Karuppu
Helter Skelter, 2023
On circularities, genre, and alien intelligences:
Martin MacInnes on his three novels Infinite Ground, Gathering Evidence, and In Ascension
Champaca Bookstore, 2023
Ruth Madievsky
on Immortalizing Memories in Fiction, Intergenerational Trauma, and Her Debut Novel All-Night Pharmacy
Write or Die Magazine, 2023
Katie Kitamura on Intimacies (video)
Champaca Bookstore, 2023
Tiffany Tsao on The Majesties (video)
Champaca Bookstore, 2020
Gautam Bhatia on The Wall (video)
Champaca Bookstore, 2020
Mario Santanilla and indie publisher Reliable Copy on still life -mirrors and windows- (video)
Champaca Bookstore, 2020
features & reviews
Flickering Realities Behind A Mirage: Book Feature on Perfection (Vincenzo Latronico) and The Anthropologists (Ayşegül Savaş) (print and online)
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Exploring the Monsters Within Us: Book Feature on Horror (print and online)
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Blurring Lines (print and online): Book Feature on Jeet Thayil’s The Elsewhereans and Vauhini Vara’s Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Questions of identity and introspection (print and online): Book Feature on Clarice Lispector
The Deccan Herald, 2025
What fills your silences? (print and online): Book Feature on books on music
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Breaking the surface calm (print and online): Book Feature on the swimming pool in fiction
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Sister Midnight: Strange Appetites: Film Review
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2025
Watch out for the evil under the sun (print and online): Book Feature on recommendations based on The White Lotus
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Sorry, Baby: Finding Good Things Amongst the Bad: Film Review
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2025
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake): Everything Eats and Is Eaten: Film Review
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2025
Santosh: Power Corrupts: Film Review
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2025
When anonymity turns out to be more revealing (print and online): Book Feature on nameless narrators
The Deccan Herald, 2025
Leaning Into Joyous Chaos (print and online): Book Feature on author Diana Wynne Jones
The Deccan Herald, 2024
Seeds: Embracing Rage: Film Review
FOCUS by 0613 Frames, 2024
Imaginations and Visualisations of Memory in Film: Film Feature
ODDCritic, 2024
Travelling Far Enough to Meet Oneself (print and online): Book Feature on books by women that explore new ideas of travel
The Deccan Herald, 2024
Unmasking the Real Behind the Virtual (print and online): Book Feature on new perspectives on Internet life
The Deccan Herald, 2024
Silence as an architect of experience in Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test: Book Review
Interlocutor Interviews, 2024
Seeking Meaning in Cosmic Chaos (print and online): Book Feature on the simulation hypothesis in fiction
The Deccan Herald, 2024
Film Peaks: Finding Meaning in Banality in ‘Somewhere‘: Film Feature
Film Daze, 2023
When the reader plays the detective (print and online): Book Feature on books-as-play
The Deccan Herald, 2023
Write or Die Magazine’s Staff and Contributor Book Picks of 2023 (Contributor — my picks were In Ascension by Martin MacInnes, Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, and Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad)
Write or Die Magazine, 2023
Belonging and not-belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Stories: Book Review
Interlocutor Interviews, 2023
“To Become Free”: The Violence of Growing Up in Stoker (2013) and Sharp Objects (2018): Film Feature
Flip Screen, 2023
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (print and online): Book Feature on literary houses
The Deccan Herald, 2023
A reckoning with god in Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds: Book Review
Interlocutor Interviews, 2023
The Mirror Has Two Faces (print and online): Book Feature on what near-future fiction reveals about the present
The Deccan Herald, 2023
Modern ambition & Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood: Book Review
Interlocutor Interviews, 2023
Imaginations of the Future / Ecological Futures, Technological Futures and Social Futures: Book Features on novels & nonfiction that explore possible futures
Champaca Bookstore, 2023
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke: Book Review
Champaca Bookstore, 2021
The Gospel of the Eels by Patrik Svensson: Book Review
Champaca Bookstore, 2020
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis: Book Review
Champaca Bookstore, 2020
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