Essays

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“A Disproportionate Display of Force: The Lure of Epic Rage” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2024)

“Urban Transgression and the Female Flâneur: On Leesa Gazi’s “Good Girls”” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2023)

“Fictions of Unknowability – How writing ‘to the edge of what can be loved’ develops unreliable, ethically dubious, and perplexing characters” in South Asian Avant-Garde (2023)

“The Language of Plants Was Shaped By a Colonial Past” in Catapult (2022)

“Hiking Through the Colonial History of America’s National Parks” in Catapult (2022)

“Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama: When BIPOC and Queer Writers Defy Minimalism” in Public Seminar (2022)

Gun Island and the Stories that Emerge on a Changing Planet” in Lit Hub (2019)

“The Vulnerability of Home on an Afflicted Planet, From California to Calcutta” in Lit Hub (2019)

“How I learned to Love Experimental Fiction by Seeking Out Books by Women of Color” in Bustle (2019)

“Diasporic Intimacies: On Reading ‘Go Home!'” in Michigan Quarterly Review Online (2018)

“How Immigrant Sculptors Shaped an Artists’ Hub Called Kumartuli” in Catapult (2018)

“Brown Girl Goes to Teach English in America” in Papercuts (2018)

“Joseph Cornell’s Children: A Narrative of Literacy, Memory, and Migration” in Entropy (2018)

“Endnotes: Photographing the Dead in the Family” in Papercuts (2017)

“Authors as Romantic Heroes: Maitreyi Devi and Mircea Eliade” in Papercuts (2016)