The first thing they say about Gloria Steinem in Mrs. America, where Cate Blanchett and Sarah Paulson are looking at her face splashed across the front covers of a magazine, while having their heads shampooed and steamed and blow dried in a salon, having to…
I knew that day, that the red lipstick had given her a little nudge, had bestowed upon her some purpose, an inner resistance to the outer fragility, an anesthetic to the disfiguration, a figment of a previously held routine yet untouched by tragedy, a color,…
The Booker 2020 is almost here and this was my review of last year’s co-winner, Testaments (that I absolutely loved) – this will be one of the most important movements about Reproductive Freedom. Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, the Berlin Wall still encircling…
‘Everyone who can read should read this book’- says Maya Angelou, on the ebbing, porously pale cover of this book.The modest cover also has a rendition of a wolf – ‘La Loba’.It’s thick, it’s a 500 pages and sits unpretty, unornamented, amidst fellow book spines,…
People on a reader’s block, people trying to read a lot, this is a great place to start and hone your speed. Here’s a review that I wrote for a reading group. Okay so 1696 pages of Naples is in my head and I can’t…
The Auschwitz Boy, Kashmir and The wall of the Anti-National. I met this boy in Auschwitz – much younger than me, from Czech Republic and who happened to walk with me through Birkenau, and I was immensely glad for his footsteps in tandem with mine.…
