Category: book review
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Book Review of Ann Chinnis’s Love Song: Port & Starboard
Introduction Some poetry collections ask to be read one poem at a time. Love Song: Port & Starboard asks to be navigated like a coastline returning to familiar harbors while…
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Book Review of Soumya Doralli’s “Those Ripples Call Me Home”
There are novels that tell a story, and then there are novels that build a world so complete you forget you are reading words on a page — you are…
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Book Review of Patrick Rothfuss’ “The Name of the Wind”
This book has been reviewed so many times before, I hardly feel the need to announce: spoiler alert. The Name of the Wind is one of the most highly regarded…
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Book Review of Jyotish Chalil Gopinathan’s ‘Almanac of the Sickle Moon’
Poetry always holds much more than what we see on the surface. It’s like a vast sea, and usually, we are only ever able to decipher a fraction of its…
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Book Review of Priyanka Bhandarkar’s ‘Ink Play’
Writing within the confines of a daily prompt is an exercise in relinquishing control. While we often believe we are the architects of our own narratives, Priyanka Bhandarkar’s Ink Play…
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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…
