Articles

“Breaking the Frame: The Narratives that Help us Fight Climate Change.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, non-fiction essay. Paying attention to communication is particularly important in the case of climate change, because how you tell a story decides how you’ll solve it. July 2019.

Book reviews

“The Complicity of Home.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jul 12 2021. Review of Northern Light: Power, Light, and the Memory of Water, by Kazim Ali.

“Mining the Hurricane.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Oct 3 2018. Review of The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists, by Naomi Klein.

“Multilayered Maps of Modern India: Anjum Hasan’s Fiction.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug 8 2017. Overview of the novels and short stories of Anjum Hasan.

“The Final Installment of the Ibis Trilogy.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug 29 2015. Review of Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh.

“Childhood in Translation.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 28 2015. Review of Ticket to Childhood: A Novel, by Nguyen Nhat Anh.

“The Era of the Geographically Confused.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug 2 2014. Review of Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India by Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan.