Looking Backward

Selections from the TLR Archive

Review: Beauty by Christina Chiu

June 22, 2020

(Santa Fe, NM: The Santa Fe Writer’s Project, 2020) Beauty by Christina Chiu follows aspiring fashion designer Amy Wong through a lifetime of adversity in an industry and culture that restricts the will and autonomy of women. In unflinching and … 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

Looking Backward

An International Journal of Contemporary Writing

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Review: Beauty by Christina Chiu

A Review of Melanie’s Song by Joanna Biggar