A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.
What John Updike got wrong about the aftermath of Katrina: “Maybe it wouldn’t have been worth it to criticize his imperfect or, frankly, lazy and racist analysis.” | Oxford American
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate. Lyrical and compassionate, Harjo’s call for creativity and empathy is an urgent and necessary work.
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs discusses prison abolition after Katrina: “We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions.” | n+1
“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.” On net neutrality and the editorial standards of Wikipedia. | The Verge
Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Arundhati Roy: “I might be a writer with whatever is conventionally known as success. But the things I write about and the people that I write about are being beaten, even as we speak today.” | The New York Times Magazine
With the formal innovation and radical vulnerability of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House and the cerebral precision of Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams, Sundberg’s breathtaking collection offers a redemptive arc for trauma survivors and vital insight into what makes healing possible.
