9 Writers Speak Up In Wake of Joyce Carol Oates’ Islamophobic Tweets
Writer Joyce Carol Oates ignited a Twitter controversy on Friday when she wrote a series of tweets linking Islam to the prevalence of sexual assaults in Egypt. … Read more
On Sex, Love & Erotica: Romance Writer Suleikha Snyder Schools You (And Us) On Countless Shades Of Brown (Romance)
Editor’s Note: Yesterday we featured a review of erotica anthology Alchemy that generated quite the online debate on the merits of erotic writing. In response, … Read more
‘Alchemy’ Explores Erotica From a South Asian Perspective
“Just the sex. Lose the poetry,” demanded an anonymous erotica collector in the 1940s to novelists Anais Nin and Henry Miller after promising them $1 a … Read more
Encouraging Young South Asian Women to Find Their Voice
When I was a little girl, I often wrote short stories. Writing was the perfect solution to a 90’s childhood devoid of computers and iPads. … Read more
Poet Tarfia Faizullah on her Upcoming Book, the 1971 Liberation War, and ‘Our Complicated Histories’
http://youtu.be/owN7-06smUc Tarfia Faizullah’s first book of poetry, “Seam,” centers around a series of poems that she started writing in graduate school. This adept and moving work … Read more
‘Pioneer Spirit’ — An Excerpt From Bushra Rehman’s Novel ‘Corona’
Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Corona, Queens, who grew up in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni masjid built in New … Read more
Much Ado About Nothing: Amitabh Bachchan in ‘The Great Gatsby’
Fact #1: Amitabh Bachchan is one of India’s most well-known actors — a legend whose influence on the silver screen spans generations. Fact #2: The … Read more
Massachusetts Masala: a Review of A.X. Ahmad’s ‘The Caretaker’
I was definitely intrigued when I was given the opportunity to read a review copy of a thriller published by a major American publishing house … Read more
Salman Rushdie @AAWW: ‘Writing is an Act of Love’
“You don’t want to be caged by origin.” Salman Rushdie admonished a rapt audience at Tribeca Cinema’s Varick Room in New York last night. “Western … Read more
Five Inspiring South Asians You Meet in Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ (and What They Taught Her)
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, spoke in Philadelphia last month to a room filled with (primarily) women about her recently released book, “Lean … Read more
