Frustrated? Disappointed? Cynical? I can’t quite nail down how I was feeling after finishing Megha Majumdar’s A Burning. The book … More
Tag: fiction
The Vanishing Half
“The hardest part about becoming someone else was deciding to. The rest was only logistics.” Stella, The Vanishing Half I … More
Chemistry: The Science Ph.D.’s Soliloquy
“I have only one paper out. The tables are in fact very beautiful, all clear and double-spaced line borders. All … More
There, There.
Urban Indians feel at home walking in the shadow of a downtown building. We came to know the downtown Oakland … More
Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
“Yet it is this awareness of the closeness of death, of the beauty inherent in each moment, that allows us … More
A Contemplation on “Time” in these Unprecedented Times
“What is time? How do we use it, spend it?” Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei mused in The Atlantic on … More
What’s Really Scary—the Male-Narrated Epilogue of ‘The Testaments,’ a déjà vu moment of the original Handmaid
Reading Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments takes me back to my high school AP Literature days when I first encountered her 1985 novel The … More
Hsieh With You 