From two World Wars and Partition to 9/11 and India’s Modi, the search for stories that help find our way out of the dark

‘Night, she tries to define herself but forgets / her skin is already inked into a script.’

An imaginary setting gave me, a child of immigrants, the authority to write about belonging unquestionably to one’s surroundings

Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon gravitates between Northern California and South India as he reenacts rituals and shares histories of both his homes.

Treating the invisible wounds of America’s violent past, Rajkamal Kahlon edges closer to finding peace in herself.

An interview with Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life, on how to write a novel that has no plot, literary modernism’s influence, and remembering India

“While a part of me was glad I wasn’t like my brother, no part of me wished to be more fortunate than my mother.”

Gaiutra Bahadur unearths buried stories of indenture—those of women who battled rigid patriarchy on either side of the black water.

A man in search of his ex-lover looks back on his coming of age—from Manil Suri’s pre-apocalyptic novel set in Mumbai

“Our Mordor was the same. Our Frankenstein was the same. Our Tinker Bell was the same. We didn’t have to imagine Davy Jones—a graphics company in Silicon Valley was manufacturing him for us. We all picked our visuals from the universal pool. The individual monster was dead.”