Category: book review
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The Hemlock’s Issue 10 is Here!
We’re proud to announce the release of Issue 10 of Hemlock Journal — our most diverse and global issue yet. This edition brings together voices, ideas, and creative work from contributors of…
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Book Review of Monisha Raman’s ‘The Highlands of Yore’
The Highlands of Yore is a story that spans generations, about the life and transformation of the indigenous people of the mountains—the Raya community, settled in Betta, a fictional district…
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Stilt-Walking Through Minefields — Book Review of Guy Elston’s ‘The Character Actor Convention’
Stilt-Walking Through Minefields Guy Elston. The Character Actor Convention. The Porcupine’s Quill, 2025 A character actor, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is “an actor who specializes in playing eccentric or…
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Book Review of Raymond Carver’s ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? is a collection of short stories by the American writer Raymond Carver. (I am new to Carver’s stories, but the title alone was enough…
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Book Review of Kiran Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’
I never read past the second chapter of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. So when I stumbled upon her story “An Unashamed Proposal” in New Yorker magazine, I was…
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The Fragmented Self: Notes from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa’s magnum opus, The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego), is, in its amorphous form, a diary, a novel, and an artefact of fragmentation. The poet himself called it…
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Review of Aditi Dasgupta’s ‘Language Has No Homeland’
Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is not merely a collection of poems – it is a multilingual act of remembering, resisting, and returning. It is remarkable for how it…
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Review of Anita Desai’s ‘In Custody’
I read Anita Desai‘s In Custody (published in 1984) back in 2019. It wasn’t an accidental read; it was one of the books to be read for our post-graduation under…
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Review of Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’
SUBMISSION OPEN for Fiction Writing Contest. Win Cash Prizes and Dual Publication with The Hemlock Journal and Remington Review. Click Here to Know More. “Where do old birds go to die? Why don’t dead ones fall like stones from…
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Review of Paulo Coelho’s ‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’
‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’ was so close to my heart. Every time I gathered the courage to read a few pages, I found myself breathing…
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