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Queerness, Womanity and Hope: A Conversation with Chinelo Okparanta, Author...
Battles, personal and political, fill the pages of Chinelo Okparanta’s debut novel, Under the Udala Trees (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015). In the late 1960s during the Biafra War in Nigeria, Ijeoma, a...
View ArticleBooks As Medicine: A Conversation With Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros burst into the literary world over 30 years ago with the coming-of-age tale of Esperanza told in the inventive vignettes of The House on Mango Street. Cisneros’ latest work, A House of...
View ArticleEka Kurniawan on Indonesia and Magical Realism
Eka Kurniawan’s debut novel Beauty is a Wound (New Directions, 2015) begins with Dewi Ayu, a stunning Dutch-Indonesian brothel madam, walking out of her grave twenty-one years after her demise. The...
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