Known Turf

My review of Tabish Khair's latest collection, Namaste Trump and Other Stories :  The book’s structure is imaginative, if also unusual. ...

Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales (Aleph 2023) is just out. This is a new edition of Known Turf (2010), with a fresh Introduction...

Eight years ago, I had my first essay accepted in the Griffith Review. ' Embodying Venus ' was a meditation on women's bodies an...

If a government is driven by the need to secure majority mandates, what incentives does it have to secure minority rights? In fact, if all i...

This is a difficult book to review in that it does not adhere to any literary format. It includes poetry, but it is not an anthology. It inc...

A good school or college teaches students to see people for the good or harm they do rather than focus on their skin, surnames, hair or tiff...

Freedom is not simply a matter of being fed. The technical lack of a cage also does not define freedom. She may be trained to perform on sta...

Squeeze your lids over your irises, until the inner mirror fogs over, and say the word ‘freedom’. What image do you see? I see a keen blue a...