~ Desert Places, by Robyn Davidson ~ Robyn Davidson is an Australian woman with a fondness for and familiarity with camels. Some years ago she travelled the Australian desert with 3 camels, occasionally in company with Aborigine groups, and chronicled...
~ Stillborn, by Rohini Nilekani ~ This medical thriller set in Bangalore has a plot involving vaccine development, clinical trials and medical research. Being tangentially involved in those fields, and having connections to Bangalore, I picked it up immediately. The...
~ Out on Main Street, by Shani Mootoo ~ I was favourably inclined towards this book before I opened it: I’d read Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, and had heard good things about Out on Main Street already. Still,...
~ The Bride Wore Red, by Robbie Clipper Sethi ~ The author is an American woman who married a Sikh man, and the book is a collection of short stories about American women who married Sikh men. Most first-time authors...
~ English Lessons and Other Stories, by Shauna Singh Baldwin ~ Women from the Indian subcontinent are often portrayed in film and novel as strong but feminine, conservative in many ways, deeply devoted to family, silent sufferers, subject to the...
Class, Race and Motherhood
Espionage in Ouagadougou
Giving the victims a voice
Intimacy in China: Changing with the times
Crimes on the Reservation
A circus without magic
Mycelium: “a way of life that challenges our animal imaginations”
Pedestrian Fare
Intersecting lives in a fluid history
A crucial 2 seconds
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