Review: Veils, Halos and Shackles
https://cafedissensusblog.com/2016/07/15/book-review-charles-ades-fishman-smita-sahays-veils-halos-shackles/
The Historian’s Daughter
My publishers have just told me that The Historian's Daughter is now featured on their website as a forthcoming title. This is tremendously exciting and is now starting to feel [...]
An editorial and some stories
A few months ago I was invited by Cafe Dissensus to guest edit a special issue on Female Genital Mutilation in India. A topic close to my heart, for [...]
Neglecting the Blog
I have been doing a bit of that lately - neglecting the blog, I mean. I've been immersed in submissions for two journals I'm currently editing (both, as guest editor). [...]
The books I loved in 2015
2015 was the year I submitted my PhD and the year I intended to read ‘differently.’ I wanted to step out of my comfort zone by reading writers I had [...]
On Not Reading Dickens
This post was published in Cafe Dissensus on 8/12/2015 http://cafedissensusblog.com/2015/12/08/on-not-reading-dickens/comment-page-1/
This is how we grieve
Lay your flag on my wall, their bodies, those streets Baghdad. Beirut. Sydney. Paris. Name the things that terrify you Jihad. Sharia. Muslim. Refugee. Inside cities crowded with impromptu [...]
What’s in a name?
Published in Southern Crossings on 15 October 2015.
Gabriel, Heathcliff and I
I was seventeen when I first encountered Gabriel Oak in the pages of Hardy’s novel. And I was about the same age when I met Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights. Mr [...]
A double-edged sword
This was first published in Southern Crossings on 12 June, 2015. http://southerncrossings.com.au/arts-and-culture/a-double-edged-sword/
Remembering in English
This essay was published in Cafe Dissensus, 3 June 2015
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson- book review
‘Why did no one help?’ This was the question Kristina Olsson reflexively asked at the 2015 Perth Writers Festival, at a panel discussing her memoir, Boy, Lost. It was also [...]