Nalini Iyer
Nalini Iyer is a Professor of English at Seattle University where she teaches courses in Asian American, Postcolonial, and South Asian Studies. She is the author/editor of several books in literary criticism. She lives in Kirkland. WA.
Anand Giridharadas’ book on the killing of Jordan Neely in New York gives Seattle...
Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man in New York city, died on the subway on May 1, 2023, because he was put in a...
The turbulent story of Partition in Bengal through the eyes of three sisters
It is August 1946 on the Indian subcontinent. World War Two is over and British rule in India is nearing its end. Three sisters...
A romance plot crashes headlong into the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on individuals...
The Wedding is a novella by Redmond, Washington-based writer Vandana Nair. Nair has previously published the novel Punch and several short stories and reviews. She...
A son’s reflection on the death of his beloved father, ‘Death of A Modernist’...
This slender book, barely 54 pages long, is a son’s tribute and reflection upon the death of his famous father, Aditya Prakash, the modernist...
With a pitch-black humor, Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif lays bare the crushing power of...
Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif is known for his subversive, darkly humorous novels that critique Pakistani politics. His first novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was...
‘Six Days in Bombay’ is a fascinating fictional look at early twentieth-century Indian art...
Alka Joshi rocketed to fame when the first novel in her Jaipur Trilogy, The Henna Artist, was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection....
‘Sakina’s Kiss’ captivates with its story of a middle-class Bengaluru family’s secrets
Vivek Shanbag’s Ghachar Gochar was the first of his novels to be translated into English, and that slim novel—which captured the challenges of family...
Sonora Jha’s ‘Intemperance’ blends romcoms, Hindu myths, and feminist musings
A single Indian American Sociology professor in Seattle, five weeks away from her fifty-fifth birthday, decides to throw a swayamvar. A practice referenced in...
In new memoir, famed writer and activist Arundhati Roy recounts the pivotal moments in...
Arundhati Roy is known globally as a novelist, an essayist, an activist who is both loved and reviled by her readers. In India, especially,...
‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ is a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving, heart-rending novel
Some good things are definitely worth waiting for. Fans of Kiran Desai’s Booker Award-winning novel, The Inheritance of Loss (2006), have waited nearly two...
