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Author Archives: Nandini Bhattacharya

Review: A Storm Blew in from Paradise by Johannes Anuryu

July 6, 2020

Nandini Bhattacharya

(New York: World Editions, 2019) One can be forgiven for approaching Johannes Anyuru’s novel A Storm Blew in from Paradise as “refugee” writing or diasporic fiction. It is not, though. A Storm Blew in From Paradise is about the “still, … Continued

A Review of Melanie’s Song by Joanna Biggar

September 30, 2019

Nandini Bhattacharya

(Bethesda, MD: Alan Squire Publishing, 2019) It is of course a truth universally acknowledged that of all possible story arcs devised since the beginning of time, the hero’s journey is the most successful one, etcetera, etcetera. In Joanna Biggar’s Melanie’s … Continued

A Review of Fake News Poems by Martin Ott

August 19, 2019

Nandini Bhattacharya

(Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX [books], 2019) If the chronicle of the political spectacle of the past several years has had the feel and texture of running one’s fingers over a rough, opaque blanket covering what is categorized as hard reality — … Continued

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