Anthology

Fiction Reviews
“The Second Marriage of Kunju Namboodiri and Other Classic Malayalam Stories”, translated by Venugopal Menon
16 April 202516 April 2025
The Malayalam edition of the Mini Krishnan-helmed collections of newly translated classic short stories offers readers a glimpse into the changing social landscape of Kerala. Covering stories written and published across forty decades, the writers of The Second Marriage of Kunju Namboodiri and Other Classic Malayalam Stories navigate the various promises of the early 20th…
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Poetry Reviews
“Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing”, edited by Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji
22 November 202223 November 2022
A new anthology of Indian authors writing in, and translating into, English, Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing creates a new sense of contemporariness on the Indian literary scene. This arrangement distinguishes the book from other anthologies of Indian literature which are for the most part organized around a linguistic binary: they are collections either of…
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